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Do you know your news? 9/23

Do you know your news? 9/23

Kenlee East September 20, 2019

1. What TV show did Netflix recently acquire streaming rights to? a. Family Guy b. The Office c. Seinfeld d. Friends 2. How many students skipped school to protest climate change in...

Lewis Howard Latimer in 1882, who worked with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, and whose improved invention of Bells work I hadnt learned of in my whitewashed education. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Exhibit in the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, USA shows a light bulb by Lewis Howard Latimer, 1883. (Source: Daderot / Wikimedia Commons)

The significance of seeking diversity in science

Kellie Plumhof February 5, 2017

  "Hidden Figures," a film depicting the lives of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, three African-American women who worked for and made great contributions to NASA,...

Trauma can cause differences in the brain between males and females. (Source: Tribune News Service)

Trauma may impact men and women differently

Kellie Plumhof November 16, 2016

It seems that when it comes to traumatic experiences, not everyone will experience them the same way.Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have now found one reason why female youth and...

New research from Texas A&M is setting the foundation for helping those who struggle with alcohol addiction. (Source: Tribune News Service) Photo credit: MCT & Tribune News Service

This is your brain on bingeing

Kellie Plumhof July 11, 2016

At some point during a night of drinking you know, well most people know, when they have had enough. That time may come when you are up on a table, half-dressed with a lampshade on your head singing along...

Excessive social media use linked to depression

Excessive social media use linked to depression

Kellie Plumhof April 12, 2016

Social media use has become an integral part of daily life for many young adults and new research has now found a possible link between depression and excessive social media use. Brian Primack, director...

Graphic by Maddy VanOrman Photo credit: Maddy Van Orman

Skin cells turned into cancer hunters

Kellie Plumhof March 2, 2016

The world of medical science broke into new territory this week as researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Lineberger Comprehensive Care Center turned skin cells into...

(Source: Tribune News Service)

Science Weekly: Surgery has a new glow

Kellie Plumhof January 10, 2016

Doctors at Duke University are testing a new agent that will cause cancer cells present in tumors to fluoresce or glow. This will allow surgeons to more effectively remove cancerous tumors during surgery. Typically,...

Biometrics: A powerful tool for medical students

Chris Sessions August 24, 2015

Medicine is focused on the human body. The body is a system—several systems, in fact. To understand some specific "spot," it pays to understand the "landscape" in which that spot resides. For example,...

What speaks to you? Knowledge and healing

April 14, 2015

This essay by Zachary Peterson, a senior at Fremont High School, won third place in the first COMMfest High School Essay Contest. In recent years, I have found myself relishing in the fact that there...

Science Weekly: And the Nobel goes to…

October 12, 2014

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three researchers who improved the resolution of optical microscopes. The winners: Eric Betzig (United States), Stefan Hell (Germany) and William Moerner...

Medical theories: A method to the madness

September 28, 2014

All great discoveries have one thing in common: they all started as theories. Doctors and scientists all over the world are constantly putting their time, resources and efforts into coming up with and...

Reasons behind medicinal overdoses

July 21, 2014

No parent wants to spend sleepless nights in a hospital watching their child lie in bed, suffering or unresponsive – so why would some parents intentionally over-drug their kids? Many kids are overdosed...

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