Recent investigation demonstrates the ease with which students can beat plagiarism-detection software Congratulations! You did it; you have made it through the last day of classes and are now preparing for finals. Soon, final grades…
One Dead, Three Injured in Synagogue Shooting
At 11:23 AM this past Saturday, the last day of Passover—the week-long Jewish holiday that commemorates the liberation of the Jewish people—a gunman entered the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in California, north of San Diego.…
Vietnamese Grocery Wrappers are Bananas
A stroll through the aisles of produce in a supermarket in Southeast Asia quickly reveals the vast differences between the food profile of the region compared to the United States. The unfamiliar sights in a…
Brexit: What’s the Tea?
As Americans, the issue of Brexit may seem like a daunting and confusing mess of political webs, few of which seem recognizable to us across the Atlantic. However, the outcome of Brexit may very well…
Black Hole Finally Photographed
On April 10, 2019, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the first ever image of a black hole. Specifically, the Messier 87 black hole in the galaxy Virgo A was imaged. The image was created…
WikiLeaks Founder Arrested in London
On April 11 Julian Assange, an Australian computer programmer and founder of the international freedom of information group WikiLeaks, was arrested in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by the Metropolitan Police. Assange has been living…
Notre Dame Burns
On Monday, April 15, thousands of people around the world watched helplessly as strands of fire wrapped around the spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and smoke billowed to the heavens. The Notre…
Record Number of Dolphins Wash up on French…
Increased global seafood demand to blame Studies have shown that dolphin and human brains are very similar, even though they are not the same size. Dolphins are one of the most intelligent mammals on the…
Plastic-eating Bacteria Discovered in Philippines
One of the Pacific’s largest polluters may have found a solution to the problem of plastic waste in the ocean. On April 14, 2018, a team of researchers from the University of the Philippines-Baguio published…