By Cindy W. Cancer diagnostics can be very inconvenient, since some can take substantial time to be completed. Certain methods of diagnosis can be painful for some patients. Often, they are inaccurate. Could there be a better way to check for cancers? …
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by Kevin Zhang Recently on the internet, a new form of video editing has appeared, called deepfake. Deepfakes are audio of someone saying something put into a video of someone else doing something. The original video/audio is manipulated so that actions and …
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By Alex Wang Gaming computers are no longer a rare sight. Nearly 3 million people build their own computers each year. However, some people like to go to the next level. Instead of using the conventional method of fans to cool their …
Read More »The Most Historical NASA Moment Kept in the Dark
By Alice Zhong As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hurtles through the uncharted darkness of deep space, it was on target for a brief New Year’s Day rendezvous with Ultima Thule, the most distant and primitive object ever to be explored by humankind. …
Read More »New Reverse Engineering Tool to be Released by NSA for Free
By: Derek Dong In the upcoming RSA security conference in March in San Francisco, the NSA is looking to release a free, reverse engineering tool for the public. The software, titled “GHIDRA”, works as a disassembler. A disassembler is a piece of …
Read More »Hydrogen Trains
by David Zhang In Europe, the world’s first hydrogen trains have been launched. According to Alstrom, the railway manufacturer who built the trains, they will be low noise and zero emission. These trains are known as the Cordia iLint, and they are …
Read More »The Sun-Earth Connection: Heliophysics
by Alex Bo Scientists have been experimenting flying towards space to other planets to discover a new world or a new society. With the ever worsening environmental condition on earth due to pollution, humans may choose to migrate to another planet if …
Read More »Gene Editing Controversy
by Kevin Zhang Recently, the topic of gene editing has become one of controversy. Chinese professor He Jiankui, a biophysicist at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China has announced his work on gene editing. He claims that the …
Read More »The Tech That Makes You Fly
By Michael Chang For millennia, mankind has invested in technology to let us take to the skies. From lighter-than-air machines of the 18th century to modern aircraft clocking in at 640 tonnes, numerous technological advances have made it possible to carry passengers …
Read More »Global Warming
By Roger Kim It is no secret that weather patterns are becoming increasingly erratic. Chilly weather and summer rains in California and increasingly powerful hurricanes in the tropics are clear signs of this change. Many scientists, among others, attribute the changing climate …
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