NMR vs. MRI By Tyler Cochran An NMR or nuclear Magnetic Resonance Machine is used for chemical analysis and viewing the chemical makeup of different compounds. They are incredibly useful, and I use them multiple times a day in my organic synthesis lab. The MRI machine or Magnetic Resonance Imagining is found in most medical […]
Diamond Gas? By Avery Sisson I was recently browsing the local diamonds shelves at the jeweler, and I wondered why the jeweler was selling his synthetic lab grown diamonds for so much less than his natural diamonds because they look about the same to me. We’ve all been told that diamonds are made under high […]
Free to Pee: Helen Free’s Role in Revolutionizing Medical Testing through Urine Test Strips By Ella Talley Have you ever heard the term “peeing on a stick?” Often, this phrase is used in reference to the required procedure for many types of drug and pregnancy tests. However, before urine testing was adapted for these purposes, […]
The Fish That Rose from the Dead By Hal Plummer The coelacanth is a fish that was once thought of to have become extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, the same mass extinction event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs. However, in 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a museum employee at East London, South Africa, was […]
9 Lives and More to Come By Diana Cardozo It is impossible to escape the influence of cats. From cute pictures and crazy videos to funny photos with senseless captions, no one can escape them. It is estimated that in the US alone, more than 46.5 million household own a cat. This makes them the […]
Brain Powered Artificial Intelligence By Kenya Rosas ChatGPT and the ethics surrounding the use of artificial intelligence has been a hot topic the past couple of years as the technology used to operate it continues to evolve. The systems used to operate tools, such as ChatGPT, are called Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). In the present […]
The Tree with a Shower Sex Life By Arav Singh Did you know that during rainy showers, there is a tree that procreates? The dioecious Gingko biloba rains motile sperm during rainfall. Besides the cycads, it is the only living seed plant to contain flagellate sperm. And, yes, I know what you are thinking, but […]
Ant Farmers By Eryk Fisher Something most people may take for granted is that humans have farmed and mastered agriculture over thousands of years, changing society and our species’ survival tactics forever. But what most people don’t realize is that humans are not the only creatures to do so, or even close to being the […]
Is the Sky Blue? By Jaron Bobay Many people ask, “Why is the sky blue?” and the answers are usually uncertain. In actuality though, it has been known for 150 years. John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, was a 19th-century physicist from Essex. In 1871, two papers he wrote were published, explaining the […]
Cooking Under Pressure By Talon J. Cotterman Have you ever wondered how pressure cooking gets your food cooked thoroughly at a much faster pace, or maybe why people up in the mountains have special cooking recipes for high altitude cooking? The answer to these both boil down to the same idea: the relationship between pressure […]
The Radium Girls: A Fluorescent Death By Dre’An Johnson It’s undoubtable that the early 1900s gave rise to a plethora of discoveries and inventions, many of which that we use today such as the television, pilotable helicopters, and (my personal favorite) crayons. It is also no secret, however, that this time period had more than […]