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Chemical Secrets Behind Dragon Beard Candy

The Georgia Tech STEMcomm VIP team had the Taste of Science festival on March 12, 2018.  During this event, my group (members from Georgia Tech SASE) and I decided to make dragon beard candy. Now let’s see the steps of…

Why do we forget our dreams?

You are halfway through saving a doomsday world from extraterrestrials or spending a night with a lost lover, when suddenly the sound of your alarm enters these storylines and comes to spoil the party. We’ve all been there, the feeling…

The Primary Colors are What?!

It’s about that time of the year where projects are due. You want to create a fantastic looking poster to present your research in a neat editing software. Yet you’re having trouble choosing the correct colors. Or wait, is it…

Anxiety

 Exams……projects……homework assignments, it never ends! In turn, the anxiety begins to manifest. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated 19.1% of U.S. adults had any anxiety disorder in the past year. Sadly, for many yellow jackets, anxiety has…

Taste of Science: Spicy Science

As the leaning tower of Jenga pieces fell after a heated battle of, what my friends and I liked to call “Spicy Jenga”, I could only dread the immense pain and suffering about to come my way. What awaited me was the big…

E-Stim and Muscle

Way back when the internet was just a dream, electricity was seen as a means to power machines, to make life easier, and to warm your bread into its toasty goodness. No one – except for the bored kids –…

LSD and Scientific Advancement

LSD. Acid. Lucy. Whatever you decide to call it, lysergic acid diethylamide has been illegal for years in most countries world-wide despite a lack of science supporting its schedule 1 status. (Schedule 1 drugs are classified by the DEA as…