“Double Trouble: The Science Behind Why 2-in-1 Shampoos Are Hair-Raising!” By Julia Stover Shampooing is more than just a routine; it’s a science that keeps our hair clean and healthy. The key players in shampoo are surfactants—molecules with hydrophilic heads that attract water and hydrophobic tails that repel it. When shampoo is applied, these surfactants […]
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 […]