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In early 2003, my mother was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). This was a traumatic experience for our family. She spent most of the day crying and moping.  Our house was full of intense sadness.  My mother often asked herself, “Why did this happen to me?” At times she tried to have hope by constantly telling herself, “I’m...

   In June of 2010, the Environmental Working Group (EWG)—"a team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, and lawyers that reviews the work of the government in order to show the consumer the truth about products"—published an analysis concluding that a form of Vitamin A, called retinyl palmitate, that is found in approximately 41% of sunscreens may accelerate...

“It feels like someone is ripping me apart... when I move I feel drained and light-headed. The only time I can be at peace is when I’m sleeping,” Nina tells SciJourner. Nina is 19 years old and has sickle-cell anemia. Because Nina has type A sickle-cell anemia, she has “sickle-cell crisis” during which her body is in...

Inside the work of Matthew Ndonwi from SciJourner on Vimeo. SciJourner interviews Dr. Matthew Ndonwi. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

“Why do you talk to yourself?” She responded with the answer, “Because I want to.” This is a typical comeback from Desheena, my 18-year-old sister, with Down syndrome.  According to MedicineNet.com, Down Syndrome is a result of having an extra copy of chromosome 21 in every cell. The National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) states that mental retardation...

Researchers believe that high levels of CO2 in the classroom as a result of poor ventilation in schools can cause students to become drowsy. The data illustrated in these two graphs was gathered from a classroom with a volume of 10, 764 ft3 using a Logger Pro carbon dioxide sensor. The CO2 sensor was plugged into a laptop and left...

The information in these graphs show that most of the respondents, which include high school teachers, high school students, and other adults, were not aware that Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs) contain mercury. (To learn more about CFLs and their problems click HERE.) Most answered that they would throw the bulbs in the trash. After the...

      These are the results of a survey of a 100 girls at an area all girls high school. These students voluntarily answered the survey questions about tanning and the effects of tanning. Image is everything in a teenage girl’s life and so tanning helps a teenager keep...

    A survey of 146 high school students, ages 14-18, asked how much caffeine (coffee, soda, tea, and energy drinks) that student drinks daily and how many days they were absent during the school per year. The above graph shows the relationship between the average numbers of days absent a student is per...