McKenna Forrest

Biology & Criminal Justice // Class of 2023

Picking up on some strange energy: The mysterious space object baffling astronomers

Space / /

On October 12, 2021, a team of Australian researchers, led by PhD student Ziteng Wang, reported the discovery of a possible new object in space. The mysterious source of energy has been labeled ASKAP J173608.2−321635. The catch? It doesn’t fit into a category of anything scientists have ever seen before.  ASKAP J173608.2−321635 was first noticed […]

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An impending crisis: Bacteria have developed into superbugs immune to antibiotics

Biology / /

Of the approximately 30,000 different species of formally-identified bacteria, less than one percent of them can make people sick. The vast majority of bacteria species are harmless or even beneficial. However, that dangerous one percent becomes more dangerous each year, killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world. How is it becoming more dangerous?

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The fallibility of memory and the misinformation effect in eyewitness testimony

Psychology / /

Anyone who has watched Criminal Minds is familiar with the iconic cognitive interview, where the team members attempt to re-immerse a witness into the crime scene by asking them to recall specific details surrounding them. The interview almost always results in an incredible moment where the witness suddenly remembers exactly what happened. However, memory retrieval

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