Fall 2018: How Far is Too Far?
Our Fall 2018 issue is now available online! Articles are posted individually as blog posts (the articles are linked below), a PDF version is currently displayed on our Archives page, and print issues will […]
A Fantastic Voyage Through a Nano-Sized Universe
The 1960s was the birthplace of many tumultuous events, of which the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, and Kennedy assassination were a few. A more obscure, somewhat smaller event, however, […]
AI: Building Trust or Threatening a Cataclysm?
An Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still a nascent technology with astronomical promises. Nevertheless, AI seems to have kicked up a storm of debates, with people passionately arguing in favor […]
Emerging Mitochondrial Therapies and Their Ethicality
Dubbed the “three-parent baby” by the media, a paper published in Reproductive Biomedicine Online in April 2017 details the live birth of a child through experimental spindle transfer, a procedure […]
CRISPR: How Far is too Far?
It is 2018, only six years after the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, and genome engineering has become a rapidly evolving, incredibly exciting field. In order to understand why CRISPR-Cas9 is considered […]
Asimov and AI: Investigating the Potential of Robotic Consciousness
Introduction Robots have pervaded popular culture since the dawn of the technological revolution; for nearly a century, authors, filmmakers, artists, and conspiracy theorists have prophesied that robots will someday break […]
Body-to-Head Transplants: The Future of Medicine or a Modern-day Frankenstein Fantasy?
Scientific history has proven that often the greatest medical breakthroughs go against society’s conventional criterion at that time. Today, society is faced with a pivotal, yet controversial, development in medicine: […]
Was It a Bounce or a Bang?
When most of us think of the idea of the “big bang”, a massive explosion emerging from nothingness comes to mind. While much of the physics community agrees that such […]
Americans Must Fix Their Health Habits Now—or Face the Consequences Tomorrow
Currently in the United States, 70.2% of the American population is either obese or overweight (1). Obesity is defined as having a BMI of 30+, while being overweight signals a BMI […]
Disagreeing on Brain Death
“Death has been dissected, cut to bits by a series of little steps, which finally makes it impossible to know which step was the real death, the one in which […]
(Baby You Can’t) Drive My Car: The Ethical Implications of Driverless Cars
Driverless cars are one of the hottest topics in media reporting on science today. The idea that a person may be able to tell a car where to go without […]
Spring 2018: Can Science Save Us?
Our Spring 2018 issue is now available online! Articles are posted individually as blog posts (the articles are linked below), a PDF version is currently displayed on our Archives page, and print issues will […]
Vaccines against Opioids: A Solution or a Problem?
Opioid abuse is responsible for billions of dollars of additional healthcare expenditure, and more importantly, about 90 deaths every day in the US alone (1). In the treatment of addiction and […]
Can Blockchain Save our Healthcare System?
“Did the Bitcoin Bubble Just Burst?”1 This latest news headline and many others immediately and frequently catch our attention with key terms such as Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain. We’ve all […]
Aging and Debilitation: The Grave Reality, and Hopeful Future, of Treating Neurodegenerative Disease
Introduction At the start of the new year, during a time usually associated with resolution and new promises, two major pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and Axovant, both announced the discontinuation of […]
The Race to Quantum Supremacy
The computer is one of the most revolutionary devices ever invented, and it distinctively marks the landscape of the digital era. We use it to work, learn, teach, read, write, […]
No More Penicillin: A Future Without Antibiotics?
INTRODUCTION The invisible world of microbes is a scary place. For nearly the entirety of humanity’s existence, infectious diseases have been the leading cause of death. It wasn’t until recently […]
One Dose, One Day: The Magic of Xofluza
On February 23, 2018 amidst a worst-in-a-decade flu season, the Japanese pharmaceutical Shionogi & Co. attained approval to sell a new influenza drug in Japan.1 Xofluza (or baloxavir marboxil) works […]
Space Biology and the Future of the Human Race
Space biology –– even the name of the field sounds like an oxymoron. Little research has been done in space biology, simply because of how difficult (and expensive) it is […]
A Shocking Revelation: Deep Brain Stimulation as a Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease, a highly debilitating neurodegenerative disorder, is the most common form of dementia worldwide.1 Those afflicted struggle with issues with memory, thinking, and behavior; the slow, progressive onset of […]
Fall 2017: The Evolution of Science
Our Fall 2017 issue is now available online: The Evolution of Science! Articles are posted individually as blog posts (the articles are linked below), a PDF version is currently displayed on our Archives page, […]
