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The American Chestnut Blight

By: Emma Huang, Journalist
Mature American Chestnut trees used to be everywhere. Now, if you go looking, you might find a mature chestnut tree, but almost all of those trees are either imported or are a hybrid. How could one of the most common trees of America be wiped out so utterly and completely?
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Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

By: Samary Velasquez, journalist
Chemical engineering involves creating products from raw materials using chemical reactions.
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Architecture

Architecture

By: Samary Velasquez, Journalist
An architect is .a person who designs buildings and other structures and prepares drawings and instructions on how to build them
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Topography

By: Samary Velasquez, journalist

  Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces. It is a field of geoscience and planetary science and is concerned with general local detail, including relief and natural and artificial...

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The Process of Recycling

The Process of Recycling

By: Emma Huang, Journalist
You probably have thrown items into a blue bin, but where do the items go? Where do they end up?
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Cleaning Up Outer Space

Cleaning Up Outer Space

By: Liam Daquioag, Journalist
Humanity has a big problem with littering. Learn more on how space is turning into a junkyard, and how we can fix it.
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Rock from the explosion that formed the Moon is still lingering inside of the Earths mantle

By: William Bohoney, Journalist
Some scientists have proposed that these formations are the remains of tectonic plates that were pushed beneath others and then descended to the boundary between Earth's outer core and the mantle above. However, Yuan and his team present a different explanation.
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Movement of the Moon and Sun around a flat Earth. (CC BY-SA 4.0)

If The Earth Was Flat

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist
We have always known that the Earth is a sphere. But what if we were wrong? What if the flat Earth community was right and the Earth was actually flat? Spoiler Alert: Very Bad!
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Vermicomposting is the process of using earthworms to decompose organic materials resulting in rich, organic compost. Most bins are started with a pound (approximately 1,000) ren worms similar to these that will eat about a half pound of vegetable food scraps daily. Red worms or red tigers are recommended and are sold by weight or by count.

Composting Worms, A Healthy Solution To Food Waste

By: Emma Huang, Journalist
Did you know that a staggering 30-40% of all the food produced in the U.S. ends up in landfills? This is a significant amount, especially since they can be repurposed through vermicomposting, the process of using worms to create nutritious soil...
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If The Earth Had Rings

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist
Earth is very well known for not having rings, but what if it did? What if during the 4.8-billion-year long history, from the Theia collision to today, the sky was adorned with beautiful crescent rings & a glaring moon? Spoiler Alert: Not good!
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The History of Cheese

By: Kairui Zhao, Journalist
Cheese, a delicious dairy product with a long history, has been around for thousands of years. People first started making cheese around 8000 BCE in the Middle East.
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What You Might Not Know About The Earth’s Layers

By: Susana Turcios Amaya, Journalist
Did you know earth was composed of 4 layers? In our day to day lives we don't think about what's under us, and how important it is.
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