Freezing Your Eggs: How, Why, and When?
University newspapers often feature advertisements from “happy couples looking to grow their family” looking for an egg donor with “an Ivy League degree, blonde hair, blue eyes, and athletic ability.”...
A Scientific Understanding of Creativity
Everybody knows the general story of Harry Potter. A teenage boy with magical powers saves the world from an evil serpent man. What makes this story so captivating? We find ourselves drawn into this fictional...
Recombinant DNA
The term “discovery” is outdated, and it does not truly characterize science as a process of hunting and finding; a process of unearthing something more massive than all of humankind. Although it sounds...
Convolutional Neural Networks: Skillful Mimicry
It’s undeniable: modern computers still pale in comparison to the human brain when given many problems. But as artificial intelligence (AI) advances and proliferates, one is compelled to wonder how these two...
Invention of the Microphone
As Mel Gibson’s William Wallace rode back and forth across the fields of Stirling, we see his want, his goal, his desire - not only for freedom, but to unite the Scottish and hype up everyone watching his...
Brain? We Have a Security Breach!
Meet the human brain’s security system: the infamous blood-brain barrier (BBB). Consisting of a dynamic network of specialized endothelial cells lining brain capillaries, the BBB serves as a nearly...
China’s “Artificial Sun” and Nuclear Fusion
Our solar system’s sun has been fusing hydrogen into helium in its core at 14 million degrees Celsius for 4.6 billion years and counting. That’s an awfully high bar for Earth-bound nuclear fusion...
Do Probiotics Work?
In recent years, biologists and nutritionists alike have been abuzz over the human microbiome: the thriving ecosystem of microorganisms colonizing the lining of our guts, the surface of our skins, and every...
Coral Reef Conservation…with Bubbles?
Australia’s most recognized landmark, the Great Barrier Reef, is in danger of being wiped out by coastal human development, which continues to pollute the ocean with carbon dioxide emissions. Coral reefs...
Carbon Capture and Storage
Can we bury global warming?* Combating climate change is perhaps the biggest environmental challenge of our generation - a looming existential threat to global society as we know it. Dramatic changes in...