Exobiology: Twilight Zones and the Extreme

We covered Ocean Worlds in our last Exobiology Blog, but those planets are pretty easy to imagine life teeming in. However, we now move on to a more extreme world, an inexplicable enigma. Tidally Locked planets. These planets are, by definition, planets that are tidally locked. On one side of the planet is infinite daylight and the other side harbors […]

COVID-19 Aftermath: Changes That We Can Expect

Year 2020 has been rough on many living in America. The number of things that went awry is ridiculous, and the ever-increasing threat that the pandemic imposes on society still looms over us. However, the changes that are being implemented might have positive aftermath. All we need is our 45th president to do a better job and back off! President Trump […]

Genetic Mapping: The Future?

Quite a while before gene sequencing existed, we were able to map genes for chromosomes. In order to do this, we used pedigrees to figure out the origins of different alleles of the same gene. Now, there is quite a bit of scientific terminology being used there, and we will clear that up. A pedigree is a map of a […]

The Puppeteer of Faith (Happy Birthday Mom – This is for you)

The Moon was beautiful. The glowing, white circle lit up the dark snow, its halo breaking the black canvas. It was a beautiful sight, and the lake that reflected the moon’s light made it even better. A person walked amidst the forest, heading toward the body of water, their silhouette streaking across the grey waters. Robes fluttered in the cold, […]

The True Meaning of Luck

This is an essay prompt for The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. The novel contains many forms of symbolism revolving the protagonist. Luck being one of the more clear ones. “You never know what worse luck your bad luck saved you from”- Cormac McCarthy. Take Santiago, the unluckiest man in Cuba, but he has the most optimistic […]

The Ruins

The Ruins are a place of powerful wonder, a place where strange things come to life. It’s a place of lawless solitude, a never-ending silence looms over it, and the broken stones of what was once a place of magic and mystery lay in the shadows. The morning sun rose and with it him. He was lost, what should he […]

Do you have a broken heart? Here’s the science to why.

Most people describe a break-up as a feeling, just a natural feeling. It was an unknown subject to science until researchers like Ethan Kross discovered the reason we have such pain and ache. The term a broken heart is a complete lie! It should be a broken Amygdala. But hey! There are all ready a ton of completely wrong biological […]