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Nuclear Fusion: Progress, Problems, and Possibility
By Harrison York What is Nuclear Fusion? Nuclear fusion is a natural phenomenon necessary for life. The sun, and all other stars in the...
Jul 28, 20205 min read
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Huntington's Disease, An Overview
By Jason Luo It is no doubt that neurological disorders and conditions are extremely lethal as they can attack one of the most vital...
Jul 26, 20205 min read
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Biomimicry
By: Sanjana Vadapalli December 17, 1903, was the day that Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first-ever plane. This plane was created...
Jul 25, 20203 min read
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Electric (Heart) Beats
By: Rebecca Xu Electricity flows from outlets in walls, powers various mechanisms, strikes down from the skies, and … powers your heart?...
Jul 25, 20204 min read
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Turning Genes “On and Off:” Polycistronic Operons in Bacteria
By: Meryl Liu Prokaryotic gene expression is significantly different from that of eukaryotic organisms, mainly due to major differences...
Jul 22, 20204 min read
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How Caffeine Affects Your Brain Chemistry
By Jenny Lam When needing to pull that all-nighter for tomorrow’s test or to get an extra boost of energy to survive the day without...
Jul 21, 20204 min read
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Five Feet Apart
By: Khushi Gupta About a little over a year ago, the movie 5 Feet Apart was released. A tale of two people forbidden to fall in love due...
Jul 15, 20202 min read
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The Trouble With Red Tides
By Mrunmayi Joshi A red tide is a phenomenon in which water bodies such as oceans, bays, and estuaries display an unusual color, most...
Jul 13, 20204 min read
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From Macro to Micro: The Importance of Bacterial Transformation and Discoveries of Gel Electrophores
Written by: Aminah Rangwala Transformation of bacteria can date earliest back to the 1900s and has evolved ever since, where scientists...
Jul 11, 20203 min read
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MechanoBiology: An Emerging Field of Biomedical Research
By: Annie Hu You may have heard of the field of Biomechanics: the study of the structure, function, and motion of our biological systems....
Jul 9, 20204 min read
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The Rise of Vitamin D Deficiency
By: Tony Wang Everybody knows that sunlight is a natural remedy, but do you know why exactly sunlight is so important? The answer lies in...
Jul 9, 20203 min read
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Update on COVID-19 Vaccines
Lynne Xu, Torrey Pines High School Part of the Collaboration with JOURNYS It has been six months since the SARS-COV-2 virus emerged in...
Jul 8, 20205 min read
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Update on Our (Little) Progress in Rainforest Conservation
By: Shifa Malik Ironically, when these ecosystems are in more peril than they have ever been in before, the loss of the world’s precious...
Jul 7, 20204 min read
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