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Vision Systems: A Shared Evolution

December 22, 2016 4 min read
By: Hannah Rosenblatt | SQ Staff Writer | SQ Online 2016-17 Although appearing as a bland blend of beige and black at first glance, catsharks and other bony fish species emit biofluorescence in dazzling greens,... Read More

An Invisible Universe

July 12, 2022 10 min read
As new sequencing technologies emerge, scientists can characterize previously unknown microbes living on the shells of inside marine invertebrate hosts. UC San Diego Roy lab investigates how these microbial universes fluctuate with our ever-changing climate... Read More

Climate Change and Skincare: How the Earth’s Warming Climate Affects Human Skin

October 29, 2021 9 min read
Like so many of my peers, my relationship with my skin has been complicated. My sole refuge during endless years of agony has been the one and only Hyram Yarbro. Yarbo, as well as every... Read More

Diving for Seaweed in La Jolla

August 5, 2022 6 min read
Seaweed: The New Local Delicacy Packaged, pre-roasted seaweed has become an increasingly common occurrence while rummaging through the contents of a grocery store snack aisle. However, these seaweed snack packs are expensive and tend to... Read More

Autophagy: the Immense Benefits of Fasting

October 19, 2021 8 min read
By now, it’s likely you’ve either tried or at least heard of one of the many dieting strategies that are out there. Fundamentally, dieting is understood in terms of caloric input and output–maintaining a caloric... Read More

The more we sea, the less we know

November 12, 2021 13 min read
Until recently, it was commonly assumed within the scientific community that the deepest parts of the ocean were lifeless voids of darkness, with conditions so harsh that no living organism could survive. In the deep-sea,... Read More

Sports As a Stress Reliever

February 17, 2017 7 min read
Theresa Bui | Blogger | SQ Online (2016-17) Point me to the genius who made me become an adult. Damn you, Father Time. How am I supposed to maintain an 8.0 GPA, a bank account... Read More

NO FREE WILL

June 30, 2017 6 min read
BY BAR YOSEF| SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2016-17) ____________________________________________________________________________ Are humans just a bunch of neurons? Are we just another primate? These questions guide the research of Dr. Robert Sapolsky. A professor of... Read More

A Beginner’s Guide to Killing a Pathogen

June 3, 2022 7 min read
Imagine yourself amidst a bustling crowd of people. You’re interacting, socializing, and having conversations with people, when suddenly someone sneezes–ACHOO! They say “excuse me,” and you reply with “bless you;” a routine exchange of courtesy... Read More

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