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Cheyenne Gracias
Dec 24, 20243 min read
ATP: Making Energy Inside the Mitochondria
Remember the burst of energy you get after a run or a workout or even the steady stamina you carry throughout the day, well you can thank...
Yurino Hisamori
Dec 22, 20243 min read
Polyphasic Sleep: The Unorthodox Sleeping Pattern Behind Productivity and Potential Health Impacts
What do Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and Leonardo da Vinci have in common with today’s ambitious students? It’s an unconventional...
Danielle Tan
Dec 20, 20247 min read
Hypoxia, Anoxia, and the Brain: What Happens When We Don’t Have Oxygen?
What happens during oxygen deprivation? Many of us have had moments in our lives where we experience the strain of holding our breath....
Yat Lam Ng
Nov 14, 20242 min read
All About Pygmy Hippos
Small and round, pygmy hippopotamus  ( Choeropsis liberiensis ) is a smaller relative of the common hippopotamus ( Hippopoamus amphibius...
Yurino Hisamori
Nov 12, 20243 min read
Recent Findings on Life in the Twilight Zone– and its Implications for Tackling Climate Change
The Twilight Zone , also known as the mesopelagic zone, refers to an oceanic layer of water that stretches around the globe. Beginning at...
Priscilla Leung
Oct 25, 20244 min read
Nitroplast: The Fourth Primary Endosymbiosis
Over billions of years, eukaryotic cells have become incredibly complex, with characteristic organelle structures performing various...
Danielle Tan
Oct 13, 20247 min read
Healing Paper Cuts and Scrapes: The 4 Stages of Wound Healing
If you are anything like me, you would know the experience of sobbing over a tiny paper cut after being too careless with the side of a...
Yat Lam Ng
Sep 3, 20243 min read
Birds of different feathers: Mixed-species flocking
Most animals group together due to the advantages of group vigilance to detect potential dangers and increase foraging efficiency. While...
Mahika Kumar
Aug 26, 20244 min read
The Genetics of Behavior: How Nature and Nurture Interact
In an ancient forest, two rivers converge, each carving its own path. One embodies nature, with waters drawn from primordial sources,...
Danielle Tan
Aug 22, 20248 min read
Thalassemia: a Genetic Overview
Have you ever wondered how many cells are in your body? Well, for red blood cells alone, an average adult has over 25,000,000,000,000,...
Yurino Hisamori
Aug 8, 20243 min read
Muscle Memory Mysteries: The Science of How Our Bodies Remember
Do you ever find yourself subconsciously doing something without thinking? Say you get up at 6:00am in the morning, but by 6:05am, you’ve...
Yurino Hisamori
Jul 29, 20242 min read
Autoimmune Diseases: When the Body Attacks Itself
The immune system is part of our body’s first-line defense, protecting us from nasty infections that can make us ill. However, just like...
Vincent Pon
Jul 27, 20243 min read
Cloning Technology/Human Cloning: Purpose and Ethics
For decades, cloning has been a controversial topic for scientists and the general public. It refers to the creation of an exact genetic...
Yat Lam Ng
Jul 13, 20242 min read
Is Drinking Warm Water Better For Your Body?
Hydration is essential to keep our bodies healthy and maintain homeostasis, a state of balance among all body systems needed to function...
Toby He
Jul 11, 20243 min read
Why Can Parrots Talk?
We often see videos online about people training their pet birds to talk. These birds are typically mynas, crows, and parrots. Parrots...
Jaimie Liu
Jul 9, 20243 min read
The Genes We Lost Along the Way
Since the beginning of time, our appearance, behaviors, and our very survival have all been predetermined by the genetics coded in our...
Mahika Kumar
Jul 7, 20244 min read
Diving Deep into Dreams: The Science Behind Our Sleeping Minds
Have you ever experienced that heart-pounding moment in a dream when you feel like you’re falling, only to be jolted awake in a sudden...
Danielle Tan
Jun 27, 20245 min read
The Design of Deoxyribonucleic Acid: The Blueprints of Life
You share more than 60% of your DNA with a banana. We all have heard about DNA, the building blocks of life, but do we know what it...
Priscilla Leung
Jun 21, 20243 min read
Laws of Thermodynamics in Biology
The laws of thermodynamics are some of the most fundamental principles in all of science, governing the behavior of energy and matter in...
Odessa Chan
May 26, 20243 min read
What Happens to Athletes' Bodies?
Athletes' bodies undergo a variety of changes and developments as a result of their training and physical exertion. These changes can be...
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