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Spontaneous Human Combustion: We Didn’t Start the Fire (Or Did We?) By Kaelen Encarnacion, Biology and English, 2021 Source: Pixabay The door handle is still warm. The air smells of something acrid and burnt. The wallpaper is blackened and peeling, with trapped air half-forming bubbles underneath. Bits of ash and other nondescript debris float in the […]

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

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

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

One of the Most Terrifying Predators You Know Used to be a Vegetarian By Kristina Klosowski, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Source: Pixabay The crocodile is one of the oldest creatures on the planet. For over 200 million years they have roamed the earth, surviving mass extinctions and outliving the dinosaurs. With their eerie ability to lay

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

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

A Walk on the Wildling Side By Theodore Fisher, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Source: Shutterstock This past August, researchers from the National Institute of Health published a study in Science aimed at improving translational immunology. Their findings demonstrate a crucial variable leading rodent laboratory research astray, which may bear responsibility for several failed human clinical drug trials.

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