On October 7th 2018, Urmila Mahadev, a graduate student in computer science at University of California, Berkeley, presented a breakthrough algorithm with the power to
Science, Technology and Society
From Spherification to Instagram: How Technology Promotes Food as an Artform and Transforms the Act of Eating
My math professor is discussing the Taylor series in my 10:30 am lecture, and it takes every bit of energy to keep my eyelids from
Health and Medicine
The Power of Technology in Mental Health Care
Mental illness is a widespread concern throughout the United States, and perhaps no group feels this more acutely than college students. Young adults aged 18
Environment
Where did they come from and where did they Galapa-go? The fascinating story of speciation in Bulimulid land snails
While the typical tourist travels 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador to catch a glimpse of the only penguin living north of the equator
Research
A Quantum Leap in Verification
On October 7th 2018, Urmila Mahadev, a graduate student in computer science at University of California, Berkeley, presented a breakthrough algorithm with the power to
The Replication Crisis: Making Science True
The Royal Society of London is the oldest national scientific institution in the world. Founded in 1660, the Royal Society was one of the birthplaces
Colombian Jungle Cows to Syrian Social Media: Researching Leishmaniasis
Dusk has fallen in the jungle outside of Tumaco, Colombia. A team of researchers has traveled via jeeps and canoes to the western side of
Turning a Natural Phenomenon into a Gene Editing Powerhouse: CRISPR Pioneer, Doudna, at Stanford’s Johnson Symposium
The CRISPR cake Last week, I celebrated my eighteenth birthday. My dorm threw me in the shower, per Stanford tradition, and baked me a cake.
Alternative Science? The future of science research in Trump’s America
By: Lloyd Lyall Trump’s attitudes on medicine and the environment might be some of the most striking disavowals of science in the modern world. The
The Other Antibiotic: Viruses
Whether the name is spread by the 5 o’clock evening news, the National Institutes of Health website, or a box that you may have to
Miscellaneous
The World in Your Belly Button
In Dr. Seuss’s literary classic, “Horton Hears a Who,” an elephant discovers an entire society of tiny people living on a small flower. In the
Defying Gravity: DIY Physics Experiment
Staring at a list of physics equations can be daunting. These mathematical expressions, though, are meant to model the world that we see around us.
