THE CARBON UNDERGROUND
By: Jojo A.

An article by Henry Fountain called The Carbon Underground in a New york Times collective, Science News That Stuck With Us in 2015 outlines the companies that are working to store...

GIRLS WHO DON'T CODE
By: Mikayla K.

New York City independent schools pride themselves on their commitment to diversity and inclusion, but have struggled to attain gender parity in computer science classes...

THE FALLACY OF NUMBERS
By: Zoe E.

The modern world is one dependent on the apparently indisputable, rational, and empirical realm of numbers. Numbers inform our beliefs, our decisions, and our sense of self...

RESPONSE BIAS STUDY
By: Zoe E.

In this study, Brandon, Nell, and I wanted to see whether a person’s judgment of a quotation was related to the person who said the quote! In order to do this, we explored...

REACHING PLUTO, AND THE END OF AN ERA OF PLANETARY EXPLORATION
By: Mateo P. 

Surprisingly, Dennis Overbye’s article, “Reaching Pluto, and the End of an Era of Planetary Exploration”, lacks focus on the actual voyage to Pluto, but rather recounts human exploration of the...

PHENOMENON OF THE SELF-DRIVING CAR
By: Liam D.

I read about the development of self-driving cars, vehicles that can drive without any human assistance, but also seem able to do it safer than most humans. The articles seemed to...

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
By: Ruhi S.

It makes sense that Darwin’s Origin of Species was greeted with strong skepticism. Our pore-less faces wrinkle in disgust and our purebred homo-sapien brains recoil in horror at the thought...

EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE RESPONSE
​By: Stella S.

During the last two weeks of March 2015, a dedicated team of scientists, using a “telescope as big as the world,” attempted to take the first ever picture of the supermassive black hole...