You were vibing when it happened. Listening to your favorite album on Spotify, brushing your teeth + checking yourself out in the mirror — then you noticed it. Gray hair. The pinnacle of all your problems. Granted, it was only a few strands — but it meant that you were….old. …

In collaboration with Sarah Jiang, Kiersten Ngeow, and Aliya Ojuade. If given the choice between a vegetable salad or nice, fried chicken and crispy potato fries, people are more likely to go ahead and pick the fries. 84.8 million Americans consume fast food daily. That’s about 37% of all US…

“Lateral flow immunochromatographic assays” is a big phrase and seems intimidating. I’ll try to break it down for you. — When I’ve asked the older women in my life who have been pregnant, they told me that they found out through “peeing on a stick.” I was very confused. I thought they meant a tree stick.

The Importance of A Growth Mindset — A large part (more than half) of my month was dedicated to studying for my final exams. In particular, AP Physics was the one I put the most emphasis on, although AP Calc + AP Comparative + French weren’t too far behind. The physics final was particularly important because it…

Who knew that studying for my physics finals would lead me to a productivity x physics crossover? Velocity Let’s start off with something simple, and probably the first thing you’d ever learn in an introductory physics course: what is velocity? (Kinematics, woo!🍻) The answer: velocity is your motion with direction. Unlike…

I got inspired to write this article after having attended the MIT Tough Tech Summit. I was simultaneously attending my virtual class, so, unfortunately, I couldn’t stay for the whole time — however, the bit that I did stay was incredibly valuable. I thank Katie Rae of the Engine, alongside…

If I could go back to elementary school me and tell her one piece of advice, I would tell her to treasure her time with the easy classes, fun projects, ancillary periods, and of course, recess. …

Team Members: Neha Shukla, Sriya Chintalapalli, Mir Ali Zain, Sarah Naghmi and Hung Huynh. We take many of our daily privileges for granted. Food on our tables, a roof over our heads, water to drink, family to spend time with, and so on. But what if your own body failed…

Polymerase chain reactions that utilize reverse transcription, or the mechanism where nucleotide sequences are copied from an existing RNA template and synthesized into DNA, have been used for diagnosing people with SARS during the 2002–2004 outbreak in Asia. Now, similar methods have been utilized for the diagnostics of potential COVID-19…