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The Florida Everglades houses one of the most delicate ecosystems in the world. It is home to the endangered Florida panther and American alligator. Yet, one animal threatens the continued existence of the ecosystem—the Burmese Python. The Burmese Python is an invasive species to the Florida Everglades. Mary Plumb from the Everglades’ National Park Service, in...

Imagine you’re sitting on a bench in the park. You’re bird watching, and you raise your binoculars to your eyes as a cardinal flies by. You’re wearing a large coat, there’s snow on the ground, and it’s the middle of winter. If you live in northern states, that probably sounds strange. Cardinals prefer to spend their winters in...

When I was only 8, my grandma’s life changed due to chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, or ITP. When she was told she had developed the disease, it really scared her. They took out her spleen, because this is what they would normally do. This should have cured everything and she should have been fine in a matter of...

Infographic: Petroleum in Transportation Chase Enright, Emily Guzy, and Patti O’Brien This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

“When I am in the sun sometimes I get heat bumps, which cause my skin to itch and consequently my eczema flares up,” says teenage student Alyssa Caldwell, from the Denver School of Science and Technology. The dry weather and extreme temperatures of Denver, Colorado affects many resident teens suffering from eczema. The term “flared up”...

Nuclear FIssion Energy by SciJourner This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License    Molly Ertle and Elizabeth Cordova  

Using Nuclear Fusion to Produce Electricity This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License Olivia Nedienbach Audrey Skaggs

For centuries, humans have burned coal to warm themselves. We’ve used diamonds to cut through solid stone. Now, carbon may be the key to combatting the effects of macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss among people 60 and older, according to the National Eye Institute (NEI).          An international team—led by Prof. Yael Hanein...

A new type of capacitor that holds three times more energy than carbon-based electrodes, and can replace lithium batteries and standard electrode cells was announced on August 8, 2014, in the prestigious journal, Nature. The newly created material, called MXene, can be made quickly, cheaply, and safely, say article authors from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering,...

False Memories This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License