Science
Another Woman’s Trash is Another Person’s Treasure: The Hidden Value of Menstrual Blood
By Oruno Bubu
Another Woman’s Trash is Another Person’s Treasure: The Hidden Value of Menstrual Blood
Using Microbes To Eat Up Pollution
Bioremediation is a method of managing pollution that relies on organisms such as microbes and plants to degrade, store, or otherwise process pollutants.
Nighttime: How the Glymphatic System Washes the Brain During Sleep
By John Nan
The glymphatic system acts as the central nervous system’s natural cleanup crew mechanism, where it uses cerebrospinal fluid to flush out toxic byproducts during deep sleep, thereby preventing short-term cognitive harmful effects and decreasing the risk of long-term neurodegenerative diseases.
How “Clean Your Plate” Causes Picky Eating
Research suggests that pressuring children to eat beyond fullness can negatively affect their relationship with food and contribute to unhealthy eating habits later in life.
How Implicit Bias Works, According to Neuroscience
Neuroscience has deepened our understanding of what implicit bias is and how it works, informing our ability to combat it and better work toward equity.
A New “Pesticide”
By Emma Musyuk
As further developments and advancements are made in the field, RNAi pesticides may eventually reduce the agricultural industry’s dependence on traditional chemical pesticides altogether. While more research is still needed to fully understand their long-term ecological impacts and drawbacks, it is clear that RNA pesticides possess the remarkable potential to change the agriculture industry forever.
Why Ultra-Processed Foods Are So Addictive
By Faiza Rumman
Ultra-processed foods are becoming an increasingly dominant part of modern diets due to factors from a wide variety of areas, such as neuroscience, food engineering, and even psychology.
Why Your Brain Misses 2016
By Jessica Yao
The sudden popularity of 2016 reveals how long-term memory, nostalgia, and the internet interact, suggesting that the year was romanticized out of psychological protection rather than objective truth.
The Case Against Serena Williams Promoting GLP-1 Drugs
By Nina Benson
An opinion on Serena Williams’s role promoting GLP-1s for Ro and the bigger implications it has in the context of her previous messaging.
The Global Cost of U.S. Climate Denial: Vulnerable States and Increasing Climate Risk
By Olivia Liu
The Trump administration’s efforts of deregulating climate policies reflects how U.S. inaction on climate change worsens environmental crises, humanitarian disasters, and instability in vulnerable countries worldwide.
Fluoride: Friend or Foe?
While fluoride helps prevent tooth decay, there are ongoing concerns about potential health risks for children and teenagers, so careful moderation and further research are necessary.
My White Streak: The Science and Struggle of Alopecia Areata
A personal story that explores the science, treatment options, and emotional impact of alopecia areata.
Tiny Carbon Balls With Big Potential: The Uses of Fullerenes
By Olivia Liu
Fullerenes demonstrate broad potential– their unique properties allow them to function as important tools in antiviral treatment, cancer therapy, medical imaging, and sports equipment.
Curiosity Killed the Cat—And Might Save the Human
By Daniel Li
A February 2026 study from the Wellcome Sanger Institute mapped the genomes of 493 cat tumors and found they are driven by many of the same mutations as human cancers, pointing to pet cats as a powerful new model for studying—and eventually treating—cancer in people.
Extreme Weather Swings: The New Normal?
By Andrew Zhang
Weather whiplash, the rapid swing between weather extremes, is becoming more common and violent as a warming Arctic destabilizes key atmospheric systems. Art/Photo Request: City skyline split down the middle: one side bright sun and a thermometer reading 90°F, the other side dark storm clouds with snowstorm.
We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve: The Science Behind Situationships
The neuroscience behind situationships demonstrates that they may actually stem from a combination of an instinctive fear of commitment along with the natural desire to be loved.
The Fallout We Never Escaped
The consequences of nuclear weapons are not only tied to their immediate destruction and impacts. They aren’t just concepts of the past; they continue to impact us even today, and highlight a disturbing truth of our society.
Natural Gas and the Closure of the Strait of Hormuz
A description of the role of natural gas in the economic and scientific worlds and the challenges the world is facing due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The Hantavirus Panic Spreads Faster Than the Virus
As the recent hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius jumpstarted online speculation and theories, the reality of hantavirus is less terrifying: it’s not likely to become a pandemic or even cause a global outbreak.
Pollen: A Microscopic Trigger of Macroscopic Reactions
Pollen, despite being essential for economic stability and plant reproduction, can trigger a complex immune response that can lead to seasonal allergies.
New Studies Show Dogs Existed Earlier Than Previously Thought
By Lorelai Kim
Two new studies analyzed the oldest dog genes yet identified and could provide clues as to where dogs originated.
What is High Cortisol vs. Low Cortisol?
Cortisol is a stress hormone that can cause weight fluctuations and the “High vs. Low Cortisol” trend deceives low cortisol levels as a positive health goal.
How AI Is Reshaping and Disrupting Traditional Healthcare
By Aiden Chiu
Artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare by improving diagnosis, enabling personalized treatment, accelerating drug development, and reshaping the future of medicine.
The Science Behind Hot Chocolate
The chemistry and structure of cocoa create a smooth and rich flavor, making hot chocolate the perfect cozy treat after a long school day.
How Does the SING! Cast Memorize All Their Lines?
Many actors use strategies such as blocking, active listening, and contextual learning to memorize their long scripts more effectively.
The Neuroscience Behind SING!: What Makes a Play Good?
By Faiza Rumman
There are a variety of factors, such as creating suspense, empathy, proper lighting placement, and strategic music, that impact a person’s brain chemistry, making a play especially memorable.
Reshaping Vision at Night
By Sophy Lin
Orthokeratology involves wearing custom-fitted and specialized contact lenses to temporarily resolve vision issues by modifying the shape of imperfections on the eye’s surface layer.
Humans: The Bears’ Next Meal?
Due to food scarcity, bears in Japan have started to turn to humans for their next meal, and if this issue is not properly recognized and emphasized, behavioral changes and ecosystem disturbances may become a habitual occurrence.
Decoding the Digital Athlete: How Sports Watches Measure Human Performance
By Aiden Chiu
Sports watches have evolved from simple timekeepers to sophisticated devices that track heart rate, sleep, and activity, giving users a detailed understanding of their performance and health.
The Final Burn: Decommissioning the International Space Station
By Andrew Zhang
Plagued by structural decay and unsustainable costs, the aging ISS presents an enormous engineering challenge to scientists and engineers aiming to safely deorbit the station.
Quantum Biology: How Quantum Mechanics May Help Birds Migrate
By Jessica Yao
The mechanism of magnetoreception is used by birds to migrate during the seasons, revealing a surprising intersection between biology, chemistry, and quantum physics.
The Truth Behind Popular Ramen Companies: Cancer-Related Carcinogens
Recent studies and safety reports suggest that some of the most popular instant ramen brands may contain additives and contaminants that could harm the human body and lead to several diseases.
Ambidexterity: Rare Skill or Learned Trait?
Ambidexterity, the trait of having no dominant hand, has lasting effects on neurological distribution—yet this ability can be learned, to an extent.
The Art of a Colorful Night
By Emma Musyuk
While the polar lights may appear as ribbons of various hues and colors in the night sky, the science behind them is just as fascinating as is their beauty.
One at a Time!
As digitalization continues to be prevalent in modern times, multitasking has become a norm for many in everyday life, but its human practicality is not possible.
No Place Like Food - The Significance of Comfort Foods
By Andrew Zhang
Comfort foods are deeply tied to emotion and memory, providing temporary relief from stress while carrying both psychological and physical consequences.
Medical Patents: Why Prescription Medications Cost So Much
By Olivia Liu
Medical patents often give companies large market domination over products, especially when loopholes allow patents to survive longer than intended.
Curiosity Killed the Cat—And Might Save the Human
By Daniel Li
A February 2026 study from the Wellcome Sanger Institute mapped the genomes of 493 cat tumors and found they are driven by many of the same mutations as human cancers, pointing to pet cats as a powerful new model for studying—and eventually treating—cancer in people.
Another Woman’s Trash is Another Person’s Treasure: The Hidden Value of Menstrual Blood
By Oruno Bubu
Another Woman’s Trash is Another Person’s Treasure: The Hidden Value of Menstrual Blood
Extreme Weather Swings: The New Normal?
By Andrew Zhang
Weather whiplash, the rapid swing between weather extremes, is becoming more common and violent as a warming Arctic destabilizes key atmospheric systems. Art/Photo Request: City skyline split down the middle: one side bright sun and a thermometer reading 90°F, the other side dark storm clouds with snowstorm.
We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve: The Science Behind Situationships
The neuroscience behind situationships demonstrates that they may actually stem from a combination of an instinctive fear of commitment along with the natural desire to be loved.
Using Microbes To Eat Up Pollution
Bioremediation is a method of managing pollution that relies on organisms such as microbes and plants to degrade, store, or otherwise process pollutants.
Nighttime: How the Glymphatic System Washes the Brain During Sleep
By John Nan
The glymphatic system acts as the central nervous system’s natural cleanup crew mechanism, where it uses cerebrospinal fluid to flush out toxic byproducts during deep sleep, thereby preventing short-term cognitive harmful effects and decreasing the risk of long-term neurodegenerative diseases.
The Fallout We Never Escaped
The consequences of nuclear weapons are not only tied to their immediate destruction and impacts. They aren’t just concepts of the past; they continue to impact us even today, and highlight a disturbing truth of our society.
How “Clean Your Plate” Causes Picky Eating
Research suggests that pressuring children to eat beyond fullness can negatively affect their relationship with food and contribute to unhealthy eating habits later in life.
Natural Gas and the Closure of the Strait of Hormuz
A description of the role of natural gas in the economic and scientific worlds and the challenges the world is facing due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The Hantavirus Panic Spreads Faster Than the Virus
As the recent hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius jumpstarted online speculation and theories, the reality of hantavirus is less terrifying: it’s not likely to become a pandemic or even cause a global outbreak.
How Implicit Bias Works, According to Neuroscience
Neuroscience has deepened our understanding of what implicit bias is and how it works, informing our ability to combat it and better work toward equity.
A New “Pesticide”
By Emma Musyuk
As further developments and advancements are made in the field, RNAi pesticides may eventually reduce the agricultural industry’s dependence on traditional chemical pesticides altogether. While more research is still needed to fully understand their long-term ecological impacts and drawbacks, it is clear that RNA pesticides possess the remarkable potential to change the agriculture industry forever.
Pollen: A Microscopic Trigger of Macroscopic Reactions
Pollen, despite being essential for economic stability and plant reproduction, can trigger a complex immune response that can lead to seasonal allergies.
Why Ultra-Processed Foods Are So Addictive
By Faiza Rumman
Ultra-processed foods are becoming an increasingly dominant part of modern diets due to factors from a wide variety of areas, such as neuroscience, food engineering, and even psychology.
New Studies Show Dogs Existed Earlier Than Previously Thought
By Lorelai Kim
Two new studies analyzed the oldest dog genes yet identified and could provide clues as to where dogs originated.
What is High Cortisol vs. Low Cortisol?
Cortisol is a stress hormone that can cause weight fluctuations and the “High vs. Low Cortisol” trend deceives low cortisol levels as a positive health goal.
How AI Is Reshaping and Disrupting Traditional Healthcare
By Aiden Chiu
Artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare by improving diagnosis, enabling personalized treatment, accelerating drug development, and reshaping the future of medicine.
Why Your Brain Misses 2016
By Jessica Yao
The sudden popularity of 2016 reveals how long-term memory, nostalgia, and the internet interact, suggesting that the year was romanticized out of psychological protection rather than objective truth.
The Case Against Serena Williams Promoting GLP-1 Drugs
By Nina Benson
An opinion on Serena Williams’s role promoting GLP-1s for Ro and the bigger implications it has in the context of her previous messaging.
Scalp First: What K-Beauty Can Teach Teens About Hair Health
A look at how the K-beauty philosophy of prevention extends to Korean hair care, and how its scalp-first approach to hair health might suggest a different way for teenagers to think about hair care.
The Illusion of Randomness
By Andrew Zhang
Human beings systematically misjudge randomness because the brain relies on fast pattern-recognition shortcuts rather than true probability, leading us to perceive meaning and structure in events that are actually random.
How Does the SING! Cast Memorize All Their Lines?
Many actors use strategies such as blocking, active listening, and contextual learning to memorize their long scripts more effectively.
The Neuroscience Behind SING!: What Makes a Play Good?
By Faiza Rumman
There are a variety of factors, such as creating suspense, empathy, proper lighting placement, and strategic music, that impact a person’s brain chemistry, making a play especially memorable.
The Global Cost of U.S. Climate Denial: Vulnerable States and Increasing Climate Risk
By Olivia Liu
The Trump administration’s efforts of deregulating climate policies reflects how U.S. inaction on climate change worsens environmental crises, humanitarian disasters, and instability in vulnerable countries worldwide.
Fluoride: Friend or Foe?
While fluoride helps prevent tooth decay, there are ongoing concerns about potential health risks for children and teenagers, so careful moderation and further research are necessary.
My White Streak: The Science and Struggle of Alopecia Areata
A personal story that explores the science, treatment options, and emotional impact of alopecia areata.
Reshaping Vision at Night
By Sophy Lin
Orthokeratology involves wearing custom-fitted and specialized contact lenses to temporarily resolve vision issues by modifying the shape of imperfections on the eye’s surface layer.
Humans: The Bears’ Next Meal?
Due to food scarcity, bears in Japan have started to turn to humans for their next meal, and if this issue is not properly recognized and emphasized, behavioral changes and ecosystem disturbances may become a habitual occurrence.
Decoding the Digital Athlete: How Sports Watches Measure Human Performance
By Aiden Chiu
Sports watches have evolved from simple timekeepers to sophisticated devices that track heart rate, sleep, and activity, giving users a detailed understanding of their performance and health.
The Final Burn: Decommissioning the International Space Station
By Andrew Zhang
Plagued by structural decay and unsustainable costs, the aging ISS presents an enormous engineering challenge to scientists and engineers aiming to safely deorbit the station.
Tiny Carbon Balls With Big Potential: The Uses of Fullerenes
By Olivia Liu
Fullerenes demonstrate broad potential– their unique properties allow them to function as important tools in antiviral treatment, cancer therapy, medical imaging, and sports equipment.
The Science Behind Hot Chocolate
The chemistry and structure of cocoa create a smooth and rich flavor, making hot chocolate the perfect cozy treat after a long school day.
Quantum Biology: How Quantum Mechanics May Help Birds Migrate
By Jessica Yao
The mechanism of magnetoreception is used by birds to migrate during the seasons, revealing a surprising intersection between biology, chemistry, and quantum physics.
The Truth Behind Popular Ramen Companies: Cancer-Related Carcinogens
Recent studies and safety reports suggest that some of the most popular instant ramen brands may contain additives and contaminants that could harm the human body and lead to several diseases.
Ambidexterity: Rare Skill or Learned Trait?
Ambidexterity, the trait of having no dominant hand, has lasting effects on neurological distribution—yet this ability can be learned, to an extent.
The Art of a Colorful Night
By Emma Musyuk
While the polar lights may appear as ribbons of various hues and colors in the night sky, the science behind them is just as fascinating as is their beauty.
One at a Time!
As digitalization continues to be prevalent in modern times, multitasking has become a norm for many in everyday life, but its human practicality is not possible.
No Place Like Food - The Significance of Comfort Foods
By Andrew Zhang
Comfort foods are deeply tied to emotion and memory, providing temporary relief from stress while carrying both psychological and physical consequences.
