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How Different Lighting in a Room Affects Your Body and Your Mood

By: Josephine Huynh, Journalist
Do you ever notice how you feel awake and energized when going outside and being in the sunlight, but find it difficult to fall asleep when the lights in your room are on? Light and its intensity play a large role in our lives, whether it's artificial or natural light.
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Reasons Why There Are Different Skin Colors

By: Nathaniel C, Journalist
Skin color is determined by the amount of melanin present in the skin. Melanin is a pigment that is produced by cells called melanocytes.
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What Happens When You Get Electrocuted

By: Ali Iskandar, Journalist
You may have wondered what happens to your body when you get electrocuted, well...  
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What Earth would be like without humans

What Earth would be like without humans

People have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. This is what would happen if humans went extinct. In the first couple of hours all of the earths electricity will power off because no one...

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What Happens When You Fall Asleep?

What Happens When You Fall Asleep?

By: Izaak Shaker, Journalist

Your brain has an internal clock, called the SCN (suprachiasmatic nucleus). When the brain gets signaled that it is nighttime, the SCN sends messages to the pineal gland. The pineal gland controls melatonin,...

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Anthrax bacteria (green) being swallowed by an immune system cell by ZEISS Microscopy is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

How the Immune System Works

By: Elvis Pham, Journalist
Neutrophils are extreme and intense suicide warriors that only live to kill. They have such eager enjoyment about killing that they would most likely to kill themselves after a few days of birth, so that they would not destroy your body from the inside.
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