December 29, 2023

Sylvie Pagovich

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet in our solar system, located about 2.8 billion miles from the sun. Neptune is named after the Roman god of the sea. The planet was discovered in 1846 by Johan Galle and Heinrich Louis d’Arrest. Urbain Jean-Joseph Le Verrier is also credited with the discovery because of his mathematical involvement. Neptune is the first planet to be predicted before its time using mathematics. Neptune was explored by the NASA mission Voyager Two, along with Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Voyager Two discovered many things about Neptune, including five of its moons, several ring arcs, the great dark spot, four rings, and its magnetic field...click here to read more

November 13, 2023

Mai Shashua

Emily Warren Roebling was an engineer who helped guide the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Roebling was born in Cold Spring, New York, on September 23, 1843. She was the second youngest of twelve children, the closest to her older brother, Gouverneur K. Warren. He was one of the people who led Roebling to work on the Brooklyn Bridge after supporting her decision to get educated. He later became a corps commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Emily visited him; there she met Washington Roebling, an engineering officer on her brother’s staff. Emily and Washington fell in love and got married on January 18th, 1865...click here to read more

May 24, 2023

Noa Essner

Over the course of human history, especially in the primitive years, mankind’s need to adapt to their surroundings has been a vital component of their survival. This adaptation has entailed learning to hunt for food, finding some form of shelter, and most especially, making fires. The exploration of this topic began in the Qesem Cave in Israel, where scientists suggest, based on ancient wood samples, that Neanderthals first started learning to make fires. Subsequent to this discovery, scientists have and continue to rely on analyzing the remains of bones and charcoal to trace the continued usage of fire. This has led scientists to conclude that as humans have evolved, ensuring their survival has not been the only use of fire. Science indicates that fire has played a critical role in actual human development from the early homosapien, a near-distant ancestor of apes, to the more complex species of humans that we are today....click here to read more

May 18, 2023

Keren Teichner 

In recent years, anxiety medication has been more widely used due to anxiety becoming a more rampant symptom of day-to-day life. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), one out of every thirteen people suffer from anxiety, making it the most common mental health disorder in the U.S. Many people use anxiety medication to help combat their anxiety and live with the stresses of life; however, many people do not know what these medications are. What types are there? Are they safe? Who uses them? This article will speak about several different types of anxiety medication...click here to read more

May 10, 2023

Noa Essner

For over a century, receiving the Nobel Prize has been a standing signifier of great progress and achievement in one of seven disciplines: chemistry, physics, economics, physiology, peace, literature, or medicine. Of nearly a thousand winners since the prize originated in 1901, only 59 of those winners have come from an Asian ethnicity. Yet, among those winners, one remarkable female scientist has truly broken down barriers and made her mark on the STEM community by becoming the first female Asian scientist to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in either physiology or medicine. This individual is Tu Youyou, a Chinese chemist whose development of the drug artemisinin is providing people worldwide with a life-saving treatment..click here to read more

May 3, 2023

Sylvie Pagovich 

Volcanoes are defined as an opening in the crust of a planet or moon. These openings allow molten rock, heated gases, and other substances to erupt. Volcanoes can be found in many places, not just on Earth. As layers of rock and ash accumulate from numerous eruptions, volcanoes frequently take the form of a hill or mountain, but they can also be found either on land or in the ocean. In general, volcanoes can either be active, dormant, or extinct...click here to read more

January 2, 2023

Maya Puterman

You have likely encountered deepfakes while browsing the internet, scrolling through TikTok, or watching videos on YouTube, without even realizing it. Deepfakes have gotten better and better since they were first created to make people look like they are doing things that in reality they never actually did...click here to read more

December 19, 2022

Noa Essner

Beneath the Scotia Sea Floor in the Antarctic Ocean, scientists unintentionally discovered remnants of DNA from microorganisms. This DNA, known scientifically as sedimentary ancient DNA, due to its being found among the accumulation near the sea floor, is estimated to be roughly one million years old. Though the DNA found in Antarctica was discovered back in 2019 as part of a research project prompted by the International Ocean Discovery Program, it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that scientists concluded that this strange DNA is much older than the 650,000-year-old sedaDNA (“Sedimentary Ancient DNA”) found in the frozen Antarctic, making it one of the world’s oldest found DNA samples to date...click here to read more

October 11, 2022

Noa Essner

Throughout history, the objectives of space agencies’ projects worldwide were to expand humanity’s knowledge of the universe and how it works beyond its limited comprehension. Among all these incredible missions, however, none have previously considered the benefits of allocating more resources to design projects in a field known as “planetary defense.” This changed when in September 2022, NASA paved the way to protect the Earth should a celestial body be aimed to crash into it...click here to read more

May 25, 2022

Bianca Silvera and Samantha Zoltan

Many of our basic necessities such as electricity, heat, and transportation require the burning of fossil fuels. But when these fossil fuels are burned, they release extremely large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the air. These greenhouse gases in turn trap heat into our atmosphere, which has led to a situation known as the human-enhanced greenhouse effect. A greenhouse effect is naturally beneficial to the earth to regulate the planet’s temperature, but when exacerbated by humans when more greenhouse gasses are emitted, the planet warms up in a process known as global warming...click here to read more

May 23, 2022

Gabrielle Alder

When we think of virtual reality, our thoughts typically conjure up high-tech video games.  However, virtual reality is far more complex and is now being utilized for a number of important everyday functions. Virtual reality (VR) uses computer modeling to enable a person to interact with an artificial three-dimensional sensory environment. VR simulates reality using goggles, headsets, gloves, or bodysuits that send and receive information...click here to read more

May 5, 2022

Lily Freilich

Though only 74 years old, Israel has made a name for itself as being one of the leading countries in agriculture, technology, and entrepreneurship. Some of their revolutionary innovations include Waze, Mobileye, and Netafim. These help people everywhere, whether by providing the most efficient route to a specific location, alerting a driver of structures near them, or modernizing irrigation through an unapparent, yet simple strategy...click here to read more

May 1, 2022

Leo Eigen

Fire has always been present in nature. Scientists consider it to be one of the most important elements of “forest ecology” – the complex biological relationships that build the basis for forest life. But with the intense rise of destructive wildfires across the West Coast of the United States which threaten homes, communities, and, above all, human life, firefighting agencies have adopted a “zero-tolerance” approach whereby all fire is considered bad...click here to read more 

April 29, 2022

Keren Teichner

In our world there exist thousands of different species of bees, but the seven of these species that can produce honey have long had a target on their backs. Since the 1980s, the bee population has been in rapid decline due to farmers and manufacturers seeking to use the bees for their honey, and in recent years, the bee problem has further deteriorated, leaving the situation worse than ever before....click here to read more

April 29, 2022

Noa Essner

The Rubik’s Cube, originally popular in the seventies and eighties, made a comeback a few short years ago around 2017. In fact, in 2018, a rough estimate of 350 million cubes was sold worldwide. Ranging from 2x2 to 22x22, the Rubik’s Cube has evolved, and now so has the world’s addiction to solving it...click here to read more 

April 22, 2022

Maya Puterman

The United Nations defines climate change as “long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.” Rising temperatures are causing natural disasters. The globe is already more than 1°F warmer than it was before the Industrial Revolution. Though seemingly insignificant, a temperature increase of just one degree is enough to wipe out an entire population of sea life and wildlife and disrupt the food chain...click here to read more

April 19, 2022

Maya Puterman

The term AI stands for artificial intelligence. AI refers to the ability of smart machines to perform human tasks through artificial intelligence that would normally require human intelligence. In 1950, Alan Turing, a mathematician, posed the question: “Can machines think?” His question led to his subsequent writing of a paper designed to explore this idea...click here to read more

April 18, 2022

Noa Essner

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is renowned for its historic progress in space exploration and reaching new frontiers of discovery beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Having maintained this reputation for over sixty years, it may come as a surprise that an agency concerned with space endeavors is now directing its focus somewhere else...click here to read more