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...
"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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
