Written By: Manya Davis Designer babies are created by genetically modifying the DNA of an embryo to influence the expression of desired genes. Currently, scientists are exploring the broad applications that CRISPR, a tool used for editing genomes, has on the advancement of designer babies.
Written by: Abhinav Anne The human brain is an extraordinary organ, capable of complex cognitive processes that underpin our everyday lives. Among these processes, memory stands as one of the most crucial and fascinating, shaping our identities, relationships, and understanding of the world. Memory, in
Written by: Chad Park Global warming is a real threat, and one of the primary causes is carbon dioxide. The Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide levels, have risen over 90% since the 1970s, reaching a record high of 417.06 parts per million (ppm)
Written by: Aditya Hansoty Gene editing is a form of genetic engineering in which DNA can be inserted into or deleted from the genome of a living organism. In 2012, George Church, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Feng Zhang, were successful in complexing the CRISPR-Cas9
Written by: Karthik Prasad The 19th and 20th centuries gave physicists a glimpse into the true underpinnings of the universe itself: modern physics. Three major theories emerged in this time period–special relativity, quantum mechanics, and general relativity. This article aims to overview the
Do you remember that crazy news back in late July about a room temperature superconductor? You might remember that some researchers in Korea found a material that was able to show signs of superconductivity at just room temperature levels instead of extremely cold conditions. This
Written by: Claudia Kowal Extremophiles are organisms that survive under extreme conditions, living in places we once thought were uninhabitable- like acidic hot springs or arctic tundras. Different types of extremophiles can live in different types of environments, including those with an extreme pH (acidic
Written by: Kohl Vonder Haar The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be one of the direst health crises of the twenty-first century, killing upwards of 6.5 million people and infecting more than 633 million globally within the span of three years. COVID-19 is caused by
By: Andrew D. Katson Definition Category theory, as invented in 1945, is a field of mathematics that works with objects and their relationships. A category is a set made up of multiple elements, called “objects”, and their “mappings” (5, 11). In figure 1, we see
Written by: Aditya Hansoty On November 15, 2022, the global population officially reached 8 billion according to a projection from the United Nations. While it is unsure if November 15 is really the exact date the earth’s population reached 8 billion, as Patrick Gerland,