CFCS, HFCS AND THEIR CASUALTIES
By: Lia D.

THE ENIGMA MACHINE
By: Rob V.
CFCs, also known as chlorofluorocarbons, were discovered in the 1930’s as the “perfect refrigerant.” At the time, CFCs seemed to offer the ideal refrigerant as they fit all of the....
The Enigma Machine was a device created after World War I by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius to protect sensitive information that was transferred through...

WHEN EBOLA IS CURED BUT NOT OVER
By: Abby W.

In 2014 and 2015, there was a large Ebola outbreak, infecting more then 28,000 people and killing about 11,000 in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Many doctors went to...

UNTITLED
By: Hawthorne R.

On an existential scale, human beings are narcissistic. When most people reach a certain age, they are able to gain enough perspective to  understand that other humans’ lives have...

EL NIÑO'S IMPACT ON WEATHER PATTERNS
By: Eden V.

Between every two to seven years, a weather pattern crops up  in the Pacific Ocean known as “El Niño” -- Spanish for “The Little Boy” or “Christ Child”. During an El Niño event...

PRESERVING CUBA: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND POLITICS
By: Hannah M.

The economic embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba in 1962 has since then essentially left the small country in the dust. Minimal economic advances have marked Cuba...

ENDANGERED CHIMPANZEES 
By: Katie L.

I chose to read an article about the classification of chimpanzee’s population status. It discussed how chimpanzees are currently classified as an “endangered species” as of...

THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING
By: Samuel T.

The effects of global warming are being felt increasingly all over the world, particularly in areas in and around the Pacific, and there are any number of significant events that are...

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON BLACK HOLES' OBSERVATION
By: Audrey A.

2015 was a huge year for physicists observing black holes and stars in our galaxy and beyond. It was also the sixty-year anniversary of Einstein’s death, and it just so happens...

SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF THE WARMING PACIFIC OCEAN​
​By: Natasha B.

As we enter 2016 with new hopes and ambitions in the scientific community, it is also a time to reflect on what new discoveries and setbacks were uncovered in 2015. One of the standout issues...