The mystery of the missing seed
One morning as I was chopping up the different fruit for my smoothie. I wondered why the bananas did not have seeds but the blueberries and strawberries did. I was wondering about that and this is what I…
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Hidden Figures Beyond: The First Black PhD in Chemistry, Marie Maynard Daly
How would you feel if you knew your work inspired hundreds, maybe even thousands of rising scientists to pursue the career that was meant for them. If you knew that some young kid would look at your research, your pictures…
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (2019-nCoV) Outbreak that Everybody is Talking About
People have different preferences for how they want to follow what is going on around the scientific world without having to spend too much time seeking for information. However, seldom scientific information is presented in all possible formats that could…
Do You Live in a Kind Area?
When I went home to Kansas over Christmas break, we had a particularly nasty snowstorm, and my family and I happened to be out driving while it hit. Our car got stuck while trying to make a turn. This caused…
Gauging the Tides of Climate Change
When scientists or politicians begin to talk about climate change, most people become scared by the severity of the issue at hand, thinking there’s not a lot left for us to do. This fear-mongering tactic typically discourages individual actions like…
Engineers Exposed: My Favorite Ethics Scandals
Imagine training your whole life to become an astronaut. Excelling in aerospace engineering degrees, going through years of training and exams, only for some cold weather to ruin your first mission and cost you your life. Even worse, it could…
That sounds fishy…
While scrolling somewhere in the interwebs, I saw a post someone had made about trying to hold their breath during action movies whenever the characters went under water, to see how realistic/unrealistic the scenes really are. Someone responded with a…
