Mar 27, 2022 | Science & Environment
By Tania Hassan | Staff Writer In recent years, concern has mounted over the increasing quantities of single-use plastic items that are becoming part of our everyday lives. One of these items is the plastic drinking straw, billions of which are given out in...
Mar 13, 2022 | Science & Environment
By Amjid Abdullatif Khurwat | Staff Writer During the mid-twentieth century, German physicist Heisenberg, came up with a hypothesis within quantum mechanics that the fabric of the universe is discontinuous, or pixelated – that is, it consists of indivisible...
Mar 13, 2022 | Science & Environment
By Yervand Kondrahjian | Staff Writer Heptachlor, a chlorinated dicyclopentadiene, was first registered in the United States in 1952 and was extensively used in soil and seed treatment to control insect pests that contaminated crops (corn, grains, citrus, and...
Feb 27, 2022 | Science & Environment
Yervand Kondrahjian | Staff Writer According to a 2013 study done by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, obesity is growing in populations of different economic levels. Because of its adverse effects, it has become a human health crisis at both the individual and...
Dec 1, 2021 | Science & Environment
Jad Kaj | Staff Writer Countless are the times where I see piles of domestic garbage getting bigger and bigger as the days pass, especially at garbage dumps, whether beside my house or on my way to university. This has been an issue mainly since 2015 – when...
Dec 1, 2021 | Science & Environment
Yervand Kondrahjian | Staff Writer What is Toxicology? Toxicology is a field of science that studies the harmful effects that chemicals have on living organisms. It involves observing and reporting symptoms that arise following exposure to toxic substances. Types of...
