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…

Without therapy or medication, and now I want to share the secret with you — I’d attempted to write this article before, thinking that I had overcome my overwhelming anxiety. And yet in the midst of writing it my hands began to shake and my mind once more began to race with those relentless, bullying thoughts, “What if it’s not true? …

The singular most important lesson you need to learn — As someone personally acquainted with childhood abuse and its ensuing trauma, I’m no stranger to the words we often blurt out after an argument with our parents: “I hate my mom. I hate my dad.” But it’s only after a completely different level of understanding and suffering that one…

You’re not the sign you think you are, but it doesn’t matter — For those of you interested in astrology and the forecast of your future, there is a vital piece of information you’re missing. In fact it may be that for your entire life you’ve been associating with the wrong sign. Let’s take me as an example. Having been born on July…

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…