Written By: Kaylee Zhou Back in March, it was rumored that the summer heat might help defeat Covid-19; many Americans clung onto this hope of optimism throughout March, April, and May. Since diseases such as the flu have their patterns of high infection rates in
Written By: Shreya Mahesh COVID-19 has swept across the globe and is often associated with flu-like symptoms, including fever, cough, and difficulty breathing. However, new studies have arisen with potential evidence that the coronavirus affects the brain and nervous system as well. Some symptoms that
WRITTEN BY: Eunice Kim COVID-19 is now the 2nd-worst pandemic in U.S. history, right after the Spanish flu, which caused 500 million deaths worldwide, approximately 675,000 of those occurring in the United States. As 2:00 PM of July 12nd, the United States alone has nearly
Written By: Kaylee Zhou Covid-19 is a term that will forever be well known. This epidemic started in Wuhan, China, which just so happens to be where my relatives reside. Sitting on the couch in the living room during my winter break, back in December,
Written by JuWon Park Prior to a White House press briefing on April 30th, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement that rejected conspiracy theories about the virus being a bioweapon, concluding that the virus was “not man-made or genetically modified”
Written by: Erin Yoo *This article was researched, created, and written from mid-April to late-May of 2020. Statistics and stories are in accordance with such. Global pandemics aren’t supposed to happen. Countries have created and strengthened their disease control organizations, conducted virology research, and designed
Written By: Shreya Mahesh It’s not common for high school students to have the opportunity to do work at the level of college students. Dr. Dong’s IMSA-CMS SIR allows students to perform particle physics data analysis with CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) at CERN in Fermilab.
Written by: Ashley Koca Antibiotic resistance has become a plague of its own, affecting millions and killing thousands. Thomas Jefferson University scientists have developed a new way to combat such detriment, utilizing m1 G37-tRNA methylation to cease the production of bacterial membrane-building proteins. The root
Written by Erin Yoo America’s favorite insect is going extinct. Small but significant, fireflies are cherished throughout America and the Western hemisphere. There’s a reason that movies, characters, companies, and conventions are named and branded after fireflies instead of other insects, such as cockroaches. The
Written by JuWon Park Coronavirus is an umbrella term that describes viruses that is round and is surrounded by spiky proteins. They are a large family of viruses that cause various diseases, ranging from the common cold to SARS. This virus is more categorized for