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Jul 28, 20205 min read
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...
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Jul 26, 20205 min read
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...
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Jul 25, 20203 min read
Biomimicry
By: Sanjana Vadapalli December 17, 1903, was the day that Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first-ever plane. This plane was created...
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Jul 25, 20204 min read
Electric (Heart) Beats
By: Rebecca Xu Electricity flows from outlets in walls, powers various mechanisms, strikes down from the skies, and … powers your heart?...
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Jul 22, 20204 min read
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...
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Jul 21, 20204 min read
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...
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Jul 15, 20202 min read
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...
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Jul 13, 20204 min read
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...
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Jul 11, 20203 min read
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...
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Jul 9, 20204 min read
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....
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Jul 9, 20203 min read
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...
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Jul 8, 20205 min read
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...
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Jul 7, 20204 min read
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...
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