Written by: Jack Morby There are millions of cars in use every day that contribute 74.5 percent of the 8 billion tons of CO2 emissions that come from the transport sector (International Energy Agency, 2018). In return for comfortable and personalized travel, the environment suffers.
Written by: Laya Gopalakrishnan Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, so states Newton’s Third Law of Motion. This idea pertains to every conceivable instance in spacetime, from two people playing catch to the collision of planets. However, how can we apply this
Matter– an all-encompassing term used to describe a substance whose properties include mass and volume. The formal particle physics definition is explained through the Paul-Exclusion Principle: at the fundamental level, the matter is any field such as an electron, quark, neutrino in which particles and
By: Edgar Carlos A new startup company called SpinLaunch is changing the way we send satellites into orbit. The company, which was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Yaney, uses a concept of catapulting satellites into space. The idea may sound bizarre at first, but SpinLaunch
Written by: Laya Gopalakrishnan Surfacism: an ideology detailing human nature’s affinity towards physically colonizing or marking land to claim and inhabit it. Though “surfacism” is not a legitimate word included in any existing dictionaries, according to Dr. Gabe Perez-Giz, former host of “PBS Space Time,”
Written by: Laya Gopalakrishnan 1 x 10-43 seconds. This is the duration of time that our universe was able to remain within a 1 x 10-33 centimeter confine. Following this was a phenomenon that many of us are familiar with: The Big Bang. There are
Introduction The methods of labeling datasets for use in training complex machine learning models have been relatively unchanged in recent years. Traditional methods simply used textual labels for the purpose of validating model predictions. These textual labels, typically in the form of bits containing the
Written By: Braeden Cullen The debate over the democratization of AI-related technologies has become increasingly pertinent in recent years. As AI development continues to accelerate, both sides of this debate continue to clash on whether these developments should be made available to the general public
WRITTEN BY: ERIN YOO Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs source: https://sites.psu.edu/rclerin/2015/04/10/hierarchy-of-needs/ Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a well-known chart depicting the essentials of the human experience, states that physiological needs come first (Ferris). These needs, including air, water, food, shelter, clothing, and reproduction, are the bare essentials
WRITTEN BY CAIT CASTILLO Living and learning in a mathematics and science academy, we’re surrounded by a myriad of STEM. From the original theories introduced thousands of years ago to the new innovations that come to life each day, we’re constantly gathering new information. As