“Just snap out of it.” This advice is an all-too-common attempt to help people with depression that, despite being well-intentioned, usually leaves everyone involved frustrated
Science, Technology and Society
A Night in the Life of a Sleeper
The rabbit zipped through the underbrush, abruptly changing its direction. It had probably lost its fox pursuer by now, but it couldn’t even spare
Health and Medicine
Snap Out of It: An Electrical Implant to Treat Severe Depression
“Just snap out of it.” This advice is an all-too-common attempt to help people with depression that, despite being well-intentioned, usually leaves everyone involved frustrated
Environment
“Water” We Drinking?
Across the country, having access to safe drinking water is a public health concern. This concern especially impacts students, who often have limited control over
Research
Snap Out of It: An Electrical Implant to Treat Severe Depression
“Just snap out of it.” This advice is an all-too-common attempt to help people with depression that, despite being well-intentioned, usually leaves everyone involved frustrated
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
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.
