Early Navigation through Advanced Chemical Topics (EN+ACT)

Month: July 2019

  • How Nonreactive can a Material Really Be?
    July 26, 2019 by

    How Nonreactive can a Material Really Be? By Tristan Maxson As a scientist, we are commonly taught that some materials are chemically inactive for reactions; this is not true.  These inert, or nonreactive, materials include things such as glassware, plastics, nitrogen, and the noble gases. Due to this being taught to us very early in […]

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  • What’s in my Water?!
    July 26, 2019 by

    What’s in my Water?! By Danielle Deardorff   Imagine you just finished working in the garden with the hot summer sun beating on you for hours. You are very parched and go inside to pour yourself a glass of water from the tap. When you turn the faucet knob, brownish green slime fills the glass. […]

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  • Potential New Drug Transportation System
    July 26, 2019 by

    Potential New Drug Transportation System By Alex Contreras Researchers have developed a new drug transportation system that has promising benefits for fighting cancer. Cancer is diagnosed in 39.7% of men and 37.6% of women. Nanotechnology is the development of incredibly small technologies that can be applied across many different sciences. Therefore, nanomedicine is the medical […]

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  • Pollution Within & Outside of Our Bodies
    July 26, 2019 by

    Pollution Within & Outside of Our Bodies By Joseph Huang Nature…a word that I have strived for and sworn to defend since as long as I can remember. After graduation, I was able to begin my travel to a few of my favorite places, national parks. Which ones? You name it, and it’s already on […]

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  • Chemotherapy Treatments are Evolving!
    July 25, 2019 by

    Chemotherapy Treatments are Evolving! By Tyler Amos Imagine living in a time period where treatments to different types of cancers didn’t exist. If one of your family members was to be diagnosed with this disease it was almost guaranteed that they would be counting their final days. This actually started to hit close to home […]

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