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Category: Summer 2019 Blogs

  • Our Dangerous Sun
    August 17, 2019 by

    Our Dangerous Sun By Paul Skelly Imagine living on a world so inhospitable, standing outside could kill you. The very light source you would use to see would also destroy your body and slowly kill you. You don’t have to imagine; that planet is called Earth. Luckily, our bodies have pigments that help protect our […]

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  • 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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