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        • The Future of Neuroscience
        • Gender Gap in Math
        • GMOs--Yes or No?
        • The History of Minecraft: How a Swedish Indie Game Came to Dominate the World
        • The Effect of Prozac on the Brain
        • Philae Lander's Discovery of Organic Molecules
        • Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind Turbines
        • Your Own Worst Enemy: An Overview of Lupus
        • The Methylhex Ban
        • The Effect of Lyme Disease on the Immune system
        • Infectious Mononucleosis
        • Replacing CFCs
        • The Switch
      • Mathematic and Scientific Explorations >
        • The 43rd Figure
        • The Clock
        • The Collatz Conjecture
        • Constructing a Soccer Ball
        • Determining how Ballparks Affect Batter's Ability to Create Hits
        • The Rotating Conundrum
        • Pythagorean Puzzle
        • Mathematic and Scientific Explorations
        • Kinetics Lab
        • Math in the Restaurant Business
        • Math as a Vessel for Social Change
        • Sustainability of Bottled Vs. Tap Water
        • Thoughts on the Lottery
        • Understanding Player Efficiency Rating
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        • Communicating With Computers
        • The Mystery of Asthma
        • The Nanoscopic War Against Cancer
        • Phytochemistry
        • Solving the energy crisis with Intermediate Band Solar Cells
        • A Pain That Never Ends
        • Rapamycin Resistance
        • Ampacity of a Single Core Horizontal Cable
        • Morphological Properties of Texting Acronym Formation
        • cGAS and STING Expression
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        • Can Humans Survive the Climate Crisis?
        • My Experience as a Teacher's Assistant
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        • Deltoidal Hexacontrahedon
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        • Algae Bio-Fuel
        • An Energy Alternative
        • Clean Energy In Transportation
        • Calorie Restriction
        • Creating Energy in the Modern World
        • Dietary Intervention Impact on Gut Microbial Gene Richness
        • Earthly Applications for NASA Technology
        • Explaining Relative Motion
        • Exploring Artificial Inteligence
        • Gamma Function
        • How Leaves Work
        • Hydrogen Fuel Cells
        • Music and Brain Development
        • Programming Calculators
        • The Science of Microsatellites
        • Sci-Fi Taser
        • Sloane's Gap
        • Sustainable Energy: Why Some Ideas Shine Brighter than Others
        • Understanding The Galvanic Cell
        • The Virus: Our Unforeseen Philosopher's Stone
        • What Are Fuel Cells and How Do They Work?
      • Mathematic and Scientific Explorations >
        • Astrocytes Expressing ALS-Linked Mutated SOD1 Release Factors Selectively Toxic to Motor Neurons
        • Big Bang
        • Dictyostelium Discoideum
        • The Future of Solar Cell Technology
        • And Many More...
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        • Alternative Energy Sources, New but Unused
        • An Insight Into the Curious World of Ethnobotany
        • Challenging What We Think We Know
        • The Current State of American Education
        • Discovering New Numbers
        • Interview With an Architect
        • Life of Pi Response
        • Mathematical Art Video Commentary
        • Missing from Science Class
        • The Museum of Math
        • The Inside Scoop on a Real Mathematician
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Scientific Exploration

Advanced Experimental Chemistry Data Analysis Flow Chart
By Anna Simmons ('20)

Bird Lab Report
By Dylan Ng ('20)

A visual flow chart outlining a chemical reaction
Did the bird population evolve? ​
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Bird Lab Report
By Yusuf Haque ('20)

The bird population evolved from majority blue colored fork beaked birds to become gold colored spoon beaked birds.
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Redefining the World’s Measurement System
by Alex Smith ('21)

On November 16th of 2018, the dreams of scientists across the world came true; it was agreed that the kilogram...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
by Calum Rizvi


​Measurements, as explained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, are the primary factor in human... ​
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Chemistry of Copper Lab Report
by Luke Van Horn

The objective of the experiment is to observe the changes copper goes through as it reacts with various chemicals and to...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
by Charlotte Agliata

One of the goals of the people who established the metric system in 1875 was to unite countries of varying languages across...
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Redefining the World's measurement System
by Nicholas Yohn

On November 16, 2018, scientists from all over the world voted to redefine the kilogram, one of the base units of measurement...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Ethan Weisberg

During the French Revolution, many people were outraged by the arbitrary and changing units that were being used in trade...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Jake Srebnick

On November 16, 2018, sixty countries came together in France and finalized the International System of Units. These countries...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Kaylie Harlin

Measurements play an extraordinarily large role in our modern everyday lives. Almost every instance of technology is made...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Lily Bowman

In 1875, following the French Revolution, people set out to create a system of measurement available” for all times, for all people...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Milly Howard

When the SI (the metric system) was established and named the international metric for measurement, it was based off of the...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Rebecca Kim

The original goal of the people who established the metric system in 1875, following the French Revolution, was to “create the...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Charlie Morris

The origin of the metric system has its roots in France during the 1700s. France was a cosmopolitan place with approximately...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Georgia Groome

There is a lot of communication about the consistency of measurements throughout our world. For example: how do I...
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Empirically Determining the Rate of Reaction of the Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide is Affected by the Use of Different Catalysts
by Jordan Pierre-Raphael, Malcolm Turner, and Olivia Furman

There are a number of ways to increase the rate at which a reaction occurs by changing different factors, one of these...
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AT Physics Oscillating Spring Program
by Mark Gazzerro

Above is my oscillating spring program, which simulates a mass connected to a ceiling by a spring, and it maps the simple...
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The Relation Between Position and Velocity mini lab
by Alexander Economakis

In this lab in order to observe the acceleration of an object we used something called a slow roller, which was two CDs on a...
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Developing a Non-Constant Velocity Model of a Slow Roller
by Callie Worth

In the Slow Roller lab, our group’s goal was to examine the data of a moving object that does not have a constant velocity and...
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Subway Investigation Lab on Velocity
​by Pema Sherpa

My group and I were looking to research three questions. The first question was, while entering the station does the subway...
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UAM - Lab Practicum #2
by Aden, Heelah, and Leo

The Tennis Ball and The Buggy.




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Population Genetics Lab
by Satya Sheftel-Gomes ('19)

​In this lab, we investigated the question of how genetic variants spread through populations of people. More specifically, we tracked how time and environmental factors changed rates of Sickle cell gene frequency within a set population.
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A New Way of Measuring
By Eli Baum ('21)

After the French revolution, a cylinder of metal was created, and it was determined that the kilogram...
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Redefining Our Universal Measurement System
by Bobby Lobue ('21)

In 1875, directly following the French Revolution, the first universally understood measurement system was created. This creation was the metric system...
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Using Essential Laboratory Techniques to Separate, Purify, and Identify Various Substances 
by Jordan Pierre-Raphael, Jolie Krebs, and Jordan Renville ('19)

During a chemical reaction, the bonds between the atoms in the reactants are broken, and the atoms bond in new ways to form products that are physically...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
by Sophie Marcus Wade

What would the world be without measurements? Would things be measured in handfuls? Would seconds be measured based on the time it takes for someone...
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Organic Chemistry exploration paper
by Delia Barnett
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Chlorofluorocarbons, commonly known as CFCs, once lauded as revolutionary refrigerants, have over the years been revealed to cause unthinkable harm...
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Redefining the World's Measurement
System

by Ethan Dipietro

 The French revolution of 1789 allowed the newly independent citizens to create their own system of measurement and redefine units. At the time, there were...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Harper Harrell
 

In 1875, when the Treaty of the Meter was passed, the goal of the 17 nations represented was to have a common measurement system that was used...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Joey Spungen
​ 

Around the time of the French Revolution, over 250,000 different units existed, which made trade extremely difficult, and even led to people paying unfair prices...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Lea Wong
 

Previously, the kilogram has been defined by a “cylinder of platinum-iridium — about the size of a votive candle ––” called the “Grand K,” which is just about...
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LLE Diagram
​by Eli Harrell
 

Scientist Eli Harrell neatly and cleanly gives a visual diagram of a chemical reaction.
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Q Rael
 

At the end of the French Revolution, with the monarchy defeated and the new republic in power, the kilogram was born from the idea of global agreement...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Eric Berg
 

The recent vote by 57 countries to redefine the standard for the kilogram realizes the goals of those who originally established the metric system following the...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by John Wallace
 

The SI units are used scientifically across the globe. Their history, as given by Latif Nasser in a recent article, starts in the seventeenth century. During this...
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Redefining the World's Measurement System
​by Violet Chernoff
 

After many years of contemplating how to fix the International System of Units, which is known as the metric system, scientists have voted to use fundamental...
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AT Physics Oscillating Spring Program
by Alex Kyritsis 


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An innovative program simulating an oscillating spring. This project was created using GlowScript
Open Program

AT Physics Oscillating Spring Program
​by Evan Chen

Physics Project created using GlowScript
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open program

Buggy Lab Report
by Lily Orlando
 

In Buggy Lab v1.0 we had to figure out if out buggy moved at a constant velocity or not. My group's procedure consisted of two data points; one trial the car...
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Accelerated Physics Lab Report
by Sophia Leaf
 

For the first lab, my partner and I acquired one meter stick and used tape to measure out six meters on the ground. We then aligned our buggy with the front...
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Velocity of Subway leaving Station
​by Sadie Sadler

In this lab, my group and I was trying to figure out if the subway moves at a constant velocity for any part of its motion and what its maximum speed is...
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Wolf Research Paper 

by Luke Van Horn (19')

From the story of the three little pigs to little red riding hood, from Aesop’s fables to Disney, wolves are the easy villain. Yet, in reality, species of wolves across the U.S. are poisoned and shot from helicopters despite their infrequent encounters with people. Why is it that our culture sees wolves as a wild evil, when they are an endangered species that only a fraction of the population even encounters?
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  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • HOW TO SUBMIT
  • Past Publications
    • 2019 Publication >
      • Scientific Research
      • Mathematical Exploration
      • Scientific Exploration
      • Computer Science
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      • Artistic Creations
      • Historical and Current Explanations
      • Mathematic and Scientific Exploration
      • Scientific Research
    • 2017 Publication >
      • Artistic Creations
      • Historical and Current Explanations
      • Mathematic and Scientific Exploration
      • Reactions and Responses
      • Scientific Research
    • 2016 Publication >
      • Historical and Current Explanations
      • Mathematic and Scientific Explorations
      • Scientific Research
      • Reactions and Responses
      • Artistic Creations
    • 2015 Publication >
      • Historical and Current Explanations >
        • Bell Curves
        • Birds Vs. Turbines
        • Energy in the Obama Era
        • The Future of Neuroscience
        • Gender Gap in Math
        • GMOs--Yes or No?
        • The History of Minecraft: How a Swedish Indie Game Came to Dominate the World
        • The Effect of Prozac on the Brain
        • Philae Lander's Discovery of Organic Molecules
        • Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind Turbines
        • Your Own Worst Enemy: An Overview of Lupus
        • The Methylhex Ban
        • The Effect of Lyme Disease on the Immune system
        • Infectious Mononucleosis
        • Replacing CFCs
        • The Switch
      • Mathematic and Scientific Explorations >
        • The 43rd Figure
        • The Clock
        • The Collatz Conjecture
        • Constructing a Soccer Ball
        • Determining how Ballparks Affect Batter's Ability to Create Hits
        • The Rotating Conundrum
        • Pythagorean Puzzle
        • Mathematic and Scientific Explorations
        • Kinetics Lab
        • Math in the Restaurant Business
        • Math as a Vessel for Social Change
        • Sustainability of Bottled Vs. Tap Water
        • Thoughts on the Lottery
        • Understanding Player Efficiency Rating
      • Scientific Research >
        • Communicating With Computers
        • The Mystery of Asthma
        • The Nanoscopic War Against Cancer
        • Phytochemistry
        • Solving the energy crisis with Intermediate Band Solar Cells
        • A Pain That Never Ends
        • Rapamycin Resistance
        • Ampacity of a Single Core Horizontal Cable
        • Morphological Properties of Texting Acronym Formation
        • cGAS and STING Expression
      • Reactions and Responses >
        • Can Humans Survive the Climate Crisis?
        • My Experience as a Teacher's Assistant
        • Ted Talk Responses
        • Teens For Food Justice
      • Artistic Creations >
        • Chandelier
        • Deltoidal Hexacontrahedon
        • Dodecahedron Card Trick
        • Eye of the Triangle
        • Free Radric Delantic Davis
        • The Grid
        • What Does A Randomly Composed Song Sound Like?
        • Science Wing Mural
    • 2014 Publication >
      • Cover Photo
      • Artistic Creations >
        • Art Using the Fibonacci Sequence
        • Computer Generated Architecture and Designs
        • Mathematical Landscape
        • Math Art
        • Math in Music
      • Historical and Current Explanations >
        • Algae Bio-Fuel
        • An Energy Alternative
        • Clean Energy In Transportation
        • Calorie Restriction
        • Creating Energy in the Modern World
        • Dietary Intervention Impact on Gut Microbial Gene Richness
        • Earthly Applications for NASA Technology
        • Explaining Relative Motion
        • Exploring Artificial Inteligence
        • Gamma Function
        • How Leaves Work
        • Hydrogen Fuel Cells
        • Music and Brain Development
        • Programming Calculators
        • The Science of Microsatellites
        • Sci-Fi Taser
        • Sloane's Gap
        • Sustainable Energy: Why Some Ideas Shine Brighter than Others
        • Understanding The Galvanic Cell
        • The Virus: Our Unforeseen Philosopher's Stone
        • What Are Fuel Cells and How Do They Work?
      • Mathematic and Scientific Explorations >
        • Astrocytes Expressing ALS-Linked Mutated SOD1 Release Factors Selectively Toxic to Motor Neurons
        • Big Bang
        • Dictyostelium Discoideum
        • The Future of Solar Cell Technology
        • And Many More...
      • Reactions and Responses >
        • Alternative Energy Sources, New but Unused
        • An Insight Into the Curious World of Ethnobotany
        • Challenging What We Think We Know
        • The Current State of American Education
        • Discovering New Numbers
        • Interview With an Architect
        • Life of Pi Response
        • Mathematical Art Video Commentary
        • Missing from Science Class
        • The Museum of Math
        • The Inside Scoop on a Real Mathematician
    • 2013 Publication