By Sofia Pan, G8 Every culture throughout human history has crafted an origin story to explain how the cosmos came to be—from primordial oceans churning life into existence to divine architects sculpting order out of chaos. Yet modern astrophysics and cosmology have uncovered an even more poetic and mathematically astonishing …
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By: Sofia Pan, Grade 9 According to family accounts, whenever Albert Einstein found himself stuck on a complex mathematical or scientific problem, he would abruptly get up from his desk and walk towards the piano. He would play for a short while, and then suddenly, his face would light up. …
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By: Mitchell Cui, Grade 11 Almost every rechargeable device in your life runs on the same basic idea. Lithium ions shuttle back and forth between two electrodes, swimming through a liquid electrolyte in between. That liquid has carried consumer electronics for three decades, and it is also the reason batteries …
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By: Mitchell Cui, Grade 11 For the past few years, most people’s experience of artificial intelligence has been a text box. You type a question, you get an answer, and then you copy that answer somewhere it can actually be useful. That arrangement is changing. The newest systems are designed …
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By: Sarah, grade 9 Imagine you are at a park. You call your best friend because you see her favorite British Shorthair. You then touch it and show your friend, and your best friend feels the soft fur and the unique texture instantly. Isn’t that incredible? This is actually called …
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By Sofia Pan, G8 Have you ever fallen in love with doing something? It can be dancing, singing, playing chess, or even listening to podcasts. You might think the reason that you’re so into doing the activity is that you have the genes or because the activity has some magic …
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By: Mitchell Cui, Grade 11 Quantum computers have spent decades as more of a promise than a product — locked away in research labs, always “a few years off” from doing anything useful. That story is starting to change. Scientists have been chipping away at one of the field’s toughest …
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By Sarah Zhu, Grade 9 Last time, we introduced the Chinese recovery method, and today, I would like to introduce Starship. The first success of the Starship was on October 13th, 2024, which was the first time humans succeeded in recovering a rocket. And then, they succeeded twice, separately on …
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