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How the James Webb Space Telescope Will Find Habitable Planets Outside the Solar System

Rohan Menezes, Physical Sciences, Fall 2021 Figure: This Image from NASA is an illustration of an exoplanet with an atmosphere, similar to those JWST will soon be analyzing….

Where does your recycling really go?

Valentina Fernandez, Physical Sciences, Summer 2021 Figure 1: A pile of plastic bottles and miscellaneous en route to a plastic recycling facility.Image source: Wikimedia Commons Have you ever…

Acoustic Reporter Genes: The Newest Breakthrough in Cell Visualization

Caroline Conway, Physical Sciences, Summer 2021 Figure: A fluorescent protein is expressed in human epithelial cells of the Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) strain. Scientists have long used reporter genes…

When Breaking the Ice Isn’t So Simple: The Phenomenon of Flexible Ice Crystals

Caroline Conway, Physical Sciences, Summer 2021 Figure 1: Icicles like these, which formed on a house in Montreal, Canada, demonstrate the rigidity that comes to mind for most…

Unusual Chemistry of the Rare Element Einsteinium

Andrew Sasser, Physical Sciences, Winter 2021 One of the few things that we know about it, einsteinium has a strong luminescence because of its highly radioactive nature. Many…