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Retitling Stress: A Look at the Yerkes-Dodson Law

Collins Kariuki, Biological Sciences, Winter 2021 Figure 1: This graph compares stress level with performance at any job within the workplace. Source: Wikimedia Commons The experience of emotions, which…

Primordial Black Holes: The Key to Dark Matter?

Maddie Brown, Physical Sciences, Winter 2021 Figure 1: The first picture of a blackhole. Source: Wikimedia Commons Fourteen billion years ago, the Big Bang caused the universe to…

Scientists Create “Shapeshifting” Inorganic Hydrogels

Andrew Sasser, Physical Sciences, Winter 2021 This is an example of a hydrophilic hydrogel polymer. Hydrogels are normally very elastic materials composed of organic or inorganic materials mixed…

Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls

Collins Kariuki (Pomona College), Biological Sciences,  Winter 2021 Figure 1: Shows a model for decision making in a social context. Inhibitory spillovers could help facilitate impulse controls thereby…

COVID-19 May Inflict Lasting Damage on the Central Nervous System

Miranda Yu ‘24, Biological Sciences, Winter 2021 Figure 1: Transmission electron microscope image of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The ligands on the surface of the virus bind to receptors…