On December 25, 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a $10 billion telescope with unprecedented size and capabilities. The JWST is almost three times bigger than the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched in 1990, and JWST could be a key to breakthroughs in our understanding of […]

For the past month, fires have been raging throughout the West Coast. Nearly 6.3 million acres of land has been scorched by an estimate of 12,000 fires.  California Governor Gavin Newsom predicted that the majority of the fires were caused by poorly maintained forests that were set on fire by […]

If you have been paying attention recently, it’s pretty hard to miss the fact that we are in a climate crisis. The fact that we, as Californians, have a “wildfire season” and don’t know which mornings we are going to wake up to smoke in our lungs should say enough […]

In 1968, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter from a supposed Chinese physician named Kwok who described a series of reactions he experienced after eating Chinese food. “Dr. Kwok” (who is believed to have been a white, American scientist lying about his identity in order to sound […]

The annual mid-September announcement of Apple’s new technology seems to have ingrained itself into becoming a modern American tradition. And this year, that trend didn’t seem to change. All the buzz, tweets and posts on the internet focused predominantly on the release of the new iPhone, as American consumers looked […]