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All for Want of a Button: How Napoleon’s Battle in Russia Helps Me Teach Chemistry

August 17, 2019 by rjudt

All for Want of a Button How Napoleon’s Battle in Russia Helps Me Teach Chemistry By Rachel Ling Two hundred years ago, Napoleon’s army took on the Russians in a battle that marked a major strategic setback in the French invasion of Russia. In the end, only 10,000 Frenchmen out of more than half a […]

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Our Dangerous Sun

August 17, 2019 by peskelly

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 tgmaxson

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 dndeardorff

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 agcontreras

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 jdhuang

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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The Life-Preserving Power of an Enzyme and the Oxidation Reaction

July 25, 2019 by enact

The Life-Preserving Power of an Enzyme and the Oxidation Reaction By Shiloh Schwenk Along with 30.3 million other Americans, I live with diabetes (a autoimmune disease that deals with the body’s production of or reaction to insulin). With 1.5 million new diagnoses each year, diabetes has become an epidemic. Treating and monitoring diabetes is not […]

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Chemotherapy Treatments are Evolving!

July 25, 2019 by tkamos

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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