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The Effects of Nitrates Exposure
By Yervand Kondrahjian | Staff Writer
Nitrate can be found in water, soil and in the air around us as a natural chemical. It is also found in various types of foods such as vegetables, dairy and meat, as well as processed meat in which it acts as a preservative.
No straw, please
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 cafés and restaurants, or as part of takeaway meals, every year.
Is space-time smooth or pixelated?
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 countable values.
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