How Clean is Clean? Corinne Lowe April 23, 2015 Climate/Energy, Features The first full-scale “clean coal” plant opened in Canada this October. The Owned by SaskPower, the Boundary Dam Carbon Capture and Storage...
Tasty Treats Divya Seshadri April 23, 2015 Mythbusters The Science of Chocolate As you bite into a piece of chocolate do you ever wonder why it melts in your mouth? Are you ever amazed by the crisp snap...
The Haunted Houses of Physics Samvit Jain April 22, 2015 Features, Physics/Space, Technology Imagine a haunted house of sorts, one with many entrances, each of which eventually leads you to a long, dark corridor. You know that the house...
Hallucinogens Amelia Warshaw April 22, 2015 Neuro/Psych What LSD Can Teach Us About Perception LSD and other hallucinogens are typically associated with the 1960s, flower children and the Summer of Love...
Defining “Normal” Eugene Tang April 22, 2015 Technology Fighting Crime and Saving the Environment through Anomaly Detection A few years ago, if someone stole your credit card information, you might not...
Food for Thought Amelia Warshaw April 21, 2015 Features, Mythbusters What Do Our Cravings Really Mean? College students know the dangers of late-night cravings and are well-acquainted with “stress eating,” but why...
Are Clinical Research Studies Always Valid? Aastha Chokshi April 21, 2015 Health Before starting to work in science labs, many researchers are required to take ethics training courses. They are taught about the types of fraud that...
Keep Telling Yourself: Turning Pegs Is… Fun? David Weiner April 20, 2015 Neuro/Psych As humans, we like to believe that the choices we make are rational and well founded, but by using psychology to look into the subconscious we can...