PERFECTION IS ACHIEVED NOT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO ADD, BUT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO TAKE AWAY.

​Come closer, but not too close (or you’ll start orbiting this article)- and read about the story of how the millisecond pulsar star PSR J 1719-1438 turned PSR J 1719-1438b into a diamond planet! Discover what it means to be a millisecond pulsar star, a white dwarf planet, and how PSR J 1719-1438b became a dense planet with a diamond core with a bit of help!

With mind-boggling numbers of habitable planets and billions of years before us, why don’t we have any evidence of precursors before us or even other intelligent life? Where are all the aliens?

The discovery of a new exoplanet helped scientists gain insight into how seasons may work on planets outside our solar system. This article includes a description of what exoplanets are and how they are discovered. We'll also examine the exoplanet, XO-3b.

Overview

• What is Brain-Machine Interface (BMI)?
• Benefits of Neuralink
• Biological concerns
• Elon Musk's extreme goals for Neuralink
• Ethical concerns

The ability to recognize heat, cold, and touch, plays a crucial role in how we interact with the world around us. But how do the nerve signals in our bodies allow us to perceive senses like temperature and touch? This longstanding question has been answered by this year’s Nobel Prize winners.

The hippocampus is now known to be a vital part of dreams if not damaged, the formation and effects on dreams. And although dreams are not direct recordings replaying our memories, the link between these two is noticeable with the hippocampus as an important connector.

Dream interpretation has been around for millennia and is widely used in therapy, but is there any scientific backing for it? Do the dreams you have possess meaning?

Professionals at the forefront of the pandemic such as Dr. Fauci have inspired more students to apply to medical school; with such increased interest in the field, perhaps it’s the start of the solution to narrowing the gap between demand and supply of U.S. doctors.

Jobs that require knowledge in STEM branch out to many professions because virtually almost all jobs require a bit of STEM. STEM related fields attract interests from many young adults because of the freedom within the range of STEM related careers. The amazing thing is that there is something for every interest!

Why STEM? It allows us to improve our quality of life. A brief examination of a new Alzheimer’s identification algorithm reveals how applied science helps us both prevent and mitigate today’s problems, and as a result, reduce human suffering.

Why does STEM pay more? Why do the humanities pay less in general? What really makes medicine so lucrative? And many more questions to be answered.

In a way, our brains are electrical circuits. By merging electrical and computer engineering with psychiatry, researchers working with brain-machine interfaces hope to gain a greater understanding of our treatment of mental disorders and mental health as a whole.

Online learning leaves many of us feeling drained and exhausted. This article explains why this happens, and how we can alleviate it.

Protecting the environment sounds like an idealistic, lofty goal. However, as the story of the California Condor shows, real progress can and has been made! The tale of the California Condor's revival from the brink of extinction isn't just for bird lovers, but also for anyone looking for a dose of hope.

Our life as we know it is changing. Many people in SF have visited the Academy of Sciences or even Monterey Bay. They might've come across kelp forests, which are a major component of our marine ecosystem. These forests are dying quickly and we, as a community, need to address this problem immediately.

It's no secret that plastics are bad for the environment. But why? The answer lies in the chemistry of plastics – in what they are made of and how they are produced.

As we are all aware, the COVID-19 pandemic has displayed various challenges to all sectors of society. COVID-19 has not only had the potential to degrade one's physical health, but it is also a virus responsible for numerous reports of low self-esteem and poor states of mental health. This article gouges into the pandemic's negative toll on students' mental health.

Though it has already been a year since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and many people have gotten used to the new normal, it is easy to get frustrated from feeling like we cannot control various aspects of our lives. At times like these, it is more important than ever to try our best to create and sustain healthy habits.

New research shows that a sturdier spike protein on the new COVID-19 variants may allow the virus to spread more quickly.

Despite what seems like a never-ending pandemic, advances in medical technology and healthy industry research are providing hope for the future. New vaccines have been approved by the FDA and one sign of hope is the Janssen vaccine created by the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company.

This report compiles one of the crucial uses of AI, helping the COVID-19 pandemic that is engulfing our world... this article also dives deeper into how this wondrous creation of technology uses the online database to save lives with medical workers.

A fifteen-year-old Colorado scientist and inventor who uses science to help out immense crises such as contaminated drinking water, cyber bullying, and opioid addiction has been crowned Time Magazine's first-ever "Kid of the Year."

As new COVID-19 vaccines emerge this month, conspiracy theories plague the internet, reinforcing beliefs of anti-vaxxers. This article delves into the molecular level of how vaccines function to explain the potential of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.

This report includes:

• A description of Prop 14 and what it will do.
• A summary of what stem cells are.
• A description of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and what it has done.

Hint: It’s not counting them all individually. With some math, finding the answer is a lot simpler than you might think!

Deepfakes are artificially produced media where a person’s likeness replaces another in an existing video. An autoencoder is a neural network used in deepfakes; it functions by compressing and reconstructing data . . .

Jennifer Doudna and Emanuelle Charpentier win the chemistry nobel prize for discovering a genome editing tool. This tool can change the course for science. It adds advantages with medicines, crops, and much more!