I don’t believe, especially as an aspiring scientist, that I can call myself an atheist. At most I can claim to be agnostic for there is no way to prove that God doesn’t exist. Having grown up in the Southeastern United States, I was introduced at a young age…

Why we may never want to use this technology — The truth is that teleportation already exists. It was theorized in a 1935 paper written by Einstein and two of his colleagues, Podolsky and Rosen. It was later proven in experiments during the 1990’s. For decades we have known that it is possible, at the quantum level, to teleport particles…

And the enlightening quotes that will help you master them — Over the past couple of months I’ve been on a quest to better articulate my thoughts. In some ways this stems from my desire to be regarded as intelligent and well-read, but there is also something else. I understand that, in many ways, to limit your vocabulary is to limit…

Anyone can understand Einstein — I have a ball. The ball has mass. Mass tells us how much matter is in the ball. Matter is stuff we can see and touch. I have another ball! It’s bigger than the first. The bigger ball has more mass. The smaller ball has less mass. I place…

The key to a plastic-degrading enzyme may lie in the stomach of these larvae — It would surprise most people to know that there are no Styrofoam food containers in the world. And yet we’ve all seen them and eaten off of them, so surely that must be false? Styrofoam is a specific brand of polystyrene and is produced by the company DuPont who assures…

An unseen universe has arrived — In an unveiling that involved the president himself, the James Webb Space Telescope’s very first color image — Webb’s First Deep Field — was released yesterday evening at the White House. This image showed a paltry, grain-sized portion of the universe, albeit the picture was a beautifully sharp-resolution look at…

And we’re losing the chance to ever find out — At a time when mankind has touched the moon and explored the deepest points of our harrowing ocean, not many would think that one of the mysteries still plaguing our world has to do with the reproduction of eels. And yet this unassuming creature has eluded and beguiled us with…

What if with a simple line of text you could materialize even your most fantastical ideas? What if, by cooperating with a machine, you could create beautifully stylized and rendered images of the downright otherworldly or bizarre? Your portrait, as done by Vincent van Gogh. Photorealistic images of aliens or…

And the world will improve if we acknowledge this now — There is perhaps no better time than now to address the role of faith in our society. To do so is a controversial topic, as if religion were somehow above the realm of examination and questioning. And yet when events like the overturning of Roe v. Wade show how powerful…