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Written by: Lirong Shi and Manaswini Sarangi Editor: Sarah Kearns and Alyse Krausz Introduction As a scientist working around scientists, we may not realize how much scientific waste we and our colleagues produce every day, just like everyone else who may not pay attention to how much household waste we produce in our kitchen. We … Continue reading With experiments, comes waste: Scientific waste and where it ends up
Written by: Marina David Editors: Lisa Pinatti, Christina Del Greco, and Sarah Kearns Imagine you are waiting at a broken traffic light and both the green and red light are on. Should you keep waiting in hopes that it will fix itself eventually? Or should you pretend that you only see the green light and … Continue reading A journey towards quantum gravity: merging theories to understand our cosmos
From the MiSciWriters Editorial Board “MiSciWriters is a student organization dedicated to training in science writing, with the ultimate goal of improving public understanding of science. We believe that communicating science effectively to lay audiences is an essential and much-neglected component of scientific training.” Over the past five years, our mission statement and overall goals … Continue reading Happy 5th Birthday, MiSciWriters!
By: Harsha Gouda Edited by: Emily Glass, Lisa Pinatti, and Sarah Kearns Vitamins are the essential micronutrients required in tiny amounts for the healthy development of an individual. They play a crucial role by initiating various chemical reactions inside the cells like production of pigment that is responsible for your vision or synthesis of … Continue reading Activating Vitamin B12 in Humans
Author: Zechariah Pfaffenberger Editors: William Dean, Alyse Krausz, and Sarah Kearns The next-generation of astronomy and astrophysics might happen near the beautiful, sandy shores of Hawaii, but for astronomers, reaching this dream is no day at the beach. A battle is being waged in Hawaii’s tropical paradise, drawing in people from scientists to celebrities. … Continue reading Science Communication through the Lens of the Thirty-Meter Telescope Controversy
Author: Lily Johns Edited by: Lihan Xie, Genesis Rodriguez, Kristina Lenn, and Sarah Kearns The Restorative Effects of Nature “People in all walks of life, in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad times, find in nature something that comforts and restores” (Kaplans, 1995, pg. 175). University of Michigan faculty members … Continue reading Outdoor Journaling in Nichols Arboretum: A Study in Mental Health and the Power of Green Spaces
Author: Jessica McAnulty Edited by: Alison Ludzki, Lihan Xie, and Sarah Kearns Take a look inside your medicine cabinet. Advil, Benadryl, Sudafed – ready at the snap of a finger if you fall ill. Developing that medicine, however, probably takes much longer than one would expect. On average, getting a potential drug candidate from the … Continue reading From the Lab to your Medicine Cabinet: A Timeline of Drug Development
Author: Kristina Lenn Editor: Sarah Kearns The end of September played host to many action items for climate change, not the least of which was the third Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 20. These international strikes are a result of activist Greta Thunberg’s ongoing travail to not only enlighten governments and their citizens of … Continue reading The American Climate
Written by: Lirong Shi Edited by: Patricia Garay, Alyse Krausz, and Sarah Kearns The primary concerns of scientific researchers are experiments and data. Thinking about intellectual property (IP) is usually left behind. However, if researchers hope to turn products or discoveries into patents or publications, it is of vital importance to understand intellectual property as … Continue reading Struggling between Private and Public Domains — Issues around Intellectual Property
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