Parasitic Parents: The Realities of Brood Parasitism
Sarah Mirsaidi Madjdabadi | SQ 2025
As the beverage of choice for the sleep- deprived and energy deficient, coffee has found its way into the hands of people around the world. A Harvard study has shown that 54% of Americans over the age of 18 drink an average of 3.1 nine-ounce cups of coffee a day. Read More
For many modern day biologists, there will soon be another skill to... Read More
BY ANOKHI SAKLECHA | SQ STAFF WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2015-16) ... Read More
At first, I was underwhelmed; it just looked like eight horizontal lines on different sections of the screen. But when the operator told me to focus on one line and move my eyes left and right, the line dramatically shifted up and down. Then my focus shifted to another line that oscillated every time I blinked, and finally, when I ground my teeth, I saw every line on the screen scatter into clouds of multicolored dots all blending together. Read More
BY MADISON RAE | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2015-16) When... Read More
In the future, with reduced costs and increased speed and accuracy of TGS, we could see selective genetic diagnostics in clinical settings replaced with whole genome sequencing, with the latter becoming the backbone of future medicine. Read More
Among all the controversy, the research Scripps is conducting demonstrates that animal captivity can serve a greater purpose than entertainment. Read More
This is the greenhouse effect: our atmosphere’s collection of gases (including CO2) traps some sunlight and thus warms the planet. This process is necessary for life to exist on Earth, but due to of the amount of fossil fuels being burned over the past few hundred years, more and more CO2 has been added to the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is retaining more heat than usual. Read More
Half of our suite is already sick, the other half awaiting the inevitable. Twenty minutes later, we have cleansed every surface in the suite, down to the door knobs and fridge handles. There are hand sanitizer bottles every five feet, a large tub of Lysol on the table. Read More