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Science · 01. October 2021
By: Rishaan Chowdhury From the Glaciers in Alaska to the Coral Reefs in Hawaii, the world has magnificent natural beauty. But these gems of nature are not all that lies there. Coral reefs all over the world have been dying due to global warming, plastic pollution, and trawling. Gray reefs are not an uncommon sight. And Hawaii’s natural counterpart, Alaska has an immense number of glaciers all of which are melting. The glaciers in Alaska are marvelous ice sheets of blue and white. Yet in 30...
Science · 26. May 2021
IMAGE COPYRIGHT BONHAMS.COM By Rishaan Chowdhury One of the biggest enigmas of the second world war was the use and the deconstruction of the Enigma machine. The Enigma machine was an incredibly complex cipher machine that led to the founding of the, computer. Created as a commercial proposition in 1923 by the firm Scherbius & Ritter the Enigma machine was sold to various governments that used it most often to encrypt their telegraph transmissions. Multiple governments used the Enigma...
Science · 08. March 2021
Copyright Medium.com By Leone Seidel The Stanford Marshmallow experiment is an experiment on delayed gratification in kids that was conducted in 1970. The kids in the experiment were aged from 3 years and 6 months to 5 years and 8 months, and were attending the Bing Nursery School of Stanford University. Delayed gratification is the ability to wait for more rewards. Before the experiment, the experimenters played with all the kids to make them participate in the experiment. The experiment was...
Science · 09. February 2021
By Leone Seidel There was a new motion in brown tree snakes that was discovered recently that allows them to climb up smooth metal poles if they are tempted enough. This was first observed in the University of Chicago on January 11 of 2021, and was followed by most scientist’s birdhouses that were placed on those sort of poles to be immediately removed and placed on conical metal objects. They were testing whether brown tree snakes could climb up these poles, and this experiment was probably...
Science · 31. December 2020
COPYRIGHT OLACEFS.COM By Rishaan Chowdhury: Technology has changed the modern world. Today you can visit places all over the world with a few clicks, talk to your friends who are 1000’s of miles away, etc. But the world once existed and survived living through a time of handwritten letters, wooden printing blocks, and calligraphy. Calligraphy is the art of writing. Today’s writing tools such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs use calligraphic letters to power their systems. This allows you to...
Science · 07. October 2020
----------------------------------------------------------------- By: Leone Siedel The Haber-Bosch process was the first chemical process that produced ammonia. It was used during World War I to make chemical weapons and explosives. At the time, the same process revolutionized fertilizer production and avoided a possible major European famine. Even though it stopped major starvation and aided farming, it also caused war-time destruction. For this reason, the chemists who intended for the...
Science · 20. September 2020
IMAGE COPYRIGHT AQUABOUNTY TECHNOLOGIES By Rishaan Chowdhury Genetics is beginning to affect our everyday lives. Genetically modified fish and meat are just becoming more and more popular at the same rate as your iPhone 11. But unlike an iPhone this can be a risk to the health of the consumer. AquAdvantage Salmon is nearing the market. AquAdvantage Salmon is an animal breed that AquaBounty Inc. is trying to develop. I recently spoke to Paul Greenberg, a New York Times Bestselling Author who has...
Science · 24. August 2020
What is the universe made of? Most people would say atoms, but that’s not the whole story. We know that atoms are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons, because when radioactive atoms decay, they emit those particles. Actually, the situation is still more complicated. There is a different type of decay, beta decay, which is how physicists discovered the electron neutrino. After that, many different types of particles were discovered by particle accelerators, such as the LHC. Another way...
Science · 08. August 2020
Copyright EARTHJUSTICE.ORG By: Rishaan Chowdhury The FEIS for Pebble Mine was recently published. Pebble Mine is a mine that is being developed by Northern Dynasty Minerals Corporation. It will be built in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Bristol Bay is the largest salmon fishery in the world, it produces about 46% of the world’s sockeye salmon annually. Northern Dynasty Minerals is attempting to build a mine that will produce billions of dollars worth of copper and gold in an area that produces at its...