Sai Rayasam, Waukee High School Junior, Applied Sciences, Summer 2020 Caption: An artist’s depiction of NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance is set to take off on July 30th and land at the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater a little after 3:40 p.m. EST on Feb. 18, … Continue reading
Sai Rayasam, Waukee High School Junior, Physical Science, Summer 2020 Caption: Numerical simulation of two merging black holes performed by the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany. This rendition shows the degree of perturbation of the spacetime fabric, the so-called gravitational waves, through the colors (red being the highest degree of … Continue reading
Anahita Kodali, Life Sciences, News, Spring 2020 Figure 1: The debate about single-use plastic straws has been a particularly popular and passionate debate all over social media, prompting major retailers – like Starbucks – to shift from use of plastic straws to more ecofriendly lids. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The … Continue reading
By Ryan K. Kilgallon A recent study conducted at the Cockrell School of Engineering at University of Texas at Austin demonstrated that air pollution can shorten human life expectancy by over a year.1 Roughly half of the population of the United States alone lives in areas with dangerously-high levels of … Continue reading
According to a paper recently published in Nature, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cooled a vibrating drum to an unprecedented one-fifth of a quantum of energy, approaching the previously perceived limit of absolute zero (1). Scientists use temperature to measure the thermal motion of … Continue reading