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Taste and Temp: Why salts tend to sizzle while confections stay cool Sage Kumar, Biology, 2023 Source: Pxhere Revenge is a dish best served cold. Steak is best enjoyed when hot. But why? What determines each food’s optimal serving temperature? Besides the obvious players in dining that are inherently dependent on temperature like texture and consistency, […]

Breaking the stigma of mental disorder By Michelle Lim, Psychology, 2022 Source: Pixabay Science has thousands of years of experience with infections and has made remarkable advancements. However, mental illness is still on the same phase. Even though mental disorders have been with us for decades, they are still highly prevalent, significantly contributing to 90 percent

How Evolution Is Helping Coral Reefs Beat the Heat By Urjita Tendolkar, Cell and Molecular Biology, 2020 Source: Pixabay Think of the Bahamas or the Maldives. What’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Beautiful beaches? Warm weather? Crystal blue waters? Apart from the obvious beauty these places offer above sea level, they are also

Expand Your Mind (And Heal It, Too!): The Use of Psychedelics to Treat Mental Health Issues By Lily Weber, Biology and English, 2023 Source: Shutterstock When you think of the term “psychedelics,” there are many things that probably come to mind: hippies, music festivals, or even certain types of music. What probably doesn’t come to mind

Opinion: Grounded in fiction — the case against astrology By Lucas Principe, Philosophy and Environmental Science, 2019 Source: Shutterstock Astrology is certainly experiencing a renaissance in American popular culture — especially online. Ask a millennial or a Gen Z’er, the denizens of internet culture, and I bet you they’d more likely than not be able to tell you their

Polluted in the Womb By Theresa Chung, Health Science, 2023 Source: Shutterstock In recent centuries, the burning of fossil fuels has dramatically increased the amount of pollutants in the air. Coal, one of the most used fossil fuels in the world, is very toxic. It releases dangerous compounds, including carbon monoxide molecules, particulate matter (or soot),

On the Basis of Race By Syeda Hasan, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Source: Shutterstock In 1995, the first human genome was sequenced by chief private scientist Craig Venter and his colleagues at the Human Genome Project. Five years later, after having analyzed the genomes of people of five different ethnicities, Venter was definite that race has no

Debugging the gender gap in computer science: Women were the original programmers, so why aren’t they still doing it? By Claire Bohlig, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Minor, 2023 Source: Popular Mechanics, October 1944 Computer programming is stereotypically a male nerd field, much more than other scientific or engineering disciplines. When you picture a programmer, it is probably

Talking to Your Mother with That Mouth: The Development of Language in Infants By Emma Tusuzian, Psychology, 2023 Source: Shutterstock At four months old, we begin our linguistic journeys with receptive language, or the ability to comprehend speech. This means we can already distinguish phonemes, the most basic units of sound. Around the same time, we