Submitted by: YiWen Yang SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is seeking help on Twitter regarding the investigation of the explosion that happened last week. Musk’s Falcon 9 Rocket blew up, destroying a Facebook satelite. The blast is a mystery to everyone because the …
Read More »Giant Pandas: No Longer Endangered?
Submitted by: Katherine Han Giant pandas have been on the endangered list since 1990. In 2003, it was estimated that only 1,600 giant pandas were left on Earth. Recently, a survey reveals that the giant panda population has grown immensely due to …
Read More »Zika, An Emerging Problem
Ever since the Ebola virus spread uncontrollably through Western Africa, many around the world have come to fear contagious diseases. Due to the quick responses of many volunteers and scientists, the virus was quickly controlled and subdued, and limited to the equatorial …
Read More »1984 and its Relevancy to Today
By Krystal Yang Two plus two equals five. This statement is completely false—or is it? Any lie, if spoken enough times and believed by enough people, can be turned into the truth. This principle of truth is explored in Orwell’s famous novel …
Read More »Digging Up the World’s Oldest Fossils Using Climate Change
Submitted by: Stephanie Zhang Announced last Wednesday on the 31st of August, the oldest fossils yet known were discovered. These remains of ancient microbes are estimated to be 3.7 billion years old, which pushes back evidence of life on Earth by approximately …
Read More »Cats on Campus
By: Daniel Qiu Cats live everywhere in a city: in one’s warm room or in the wild streets. However, cats live a quite special life in our school, as they belong to nobody, but they are inhabitants there. One cat on our …
Read More »Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional Chinese holidays, and it is also celebrated by many other Asian countries. It is celebrated on month 8, day 15 of China’s lunar calendar, normally in September or October of the Gregorian …
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