Remembering NASA’s Katherine Johnson
By Grace Hwang
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician and trailblazer for racial and gender equality, died at age 101 on February 24. Even though the 2016...
Scientists pinpoint extragalactic radio signals
Scientists have isolated mysterious radio signals originating 500 million miles away from our galaxy. This discovery is the latest revelation regarding fast radio bursts...
Giving the avian endangerment crisis perspective
Although it seems like we see and hear them every day, the bird population in North America is drastically decreasing—so much so that it...
New malaria vaccine is a new hope for Africa
by Nikitha Kamath
Known to be deadly at times, malaria is an infectious disease that is more common in countries with tropical climates. This mosquito-borne...
Getting Wrecked- Stories from the sidelines of the opioid epidemic
Dr. Kimberly Sue is an anthropologist with a Harvard education and a physician at Riker’s Island, New York City’s main jail complex. She...
Superbugs Pose New Threats to World Health
According to a recent Center for Disease Control study, an estimated 2.8 million people get infected by antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” each year, with around 35,000...
Brand new AirPods?
by Gaby Lops, Sarah Brunskill, and Kate Zu
Did you hear that? Probably not, because these new AirPods are noise-cancelling. Many students throughout the school...
New Arctic islands appear
As polar ice melts as a result of global warming, scientists estimate that many new islands will be discovered that have previously been...
Prominent mathematics question solved for certain number systems
The seven Millennium Prize problems were posted in May 2000 by the Clay Mathematics Institute. The golden problems of mathematics. Three years later, mathematician...
NASA Astronauts Complete First All-Women Spacewalk
On October 18, 2019, NASA live-streamed the first all-woman spacewalk in world history. At 7:38 AM, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir began...