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How Do Solar Panels Work?
Have you ever asked yourself, “how do solar panels actually work? How are they able to convert energy from the sun into electricity?”...
Rémy Bossé
Jan 7, 20252 min read


Simple Harmonic Motion: Explaining the Physics Behind the Motion of an Ideal Pendulum
When you look at a simple pendulum, have you ever wondered why the object at the end of the string (often known as a bob) swings back and...
Lydia Tan
Jan 5, 20253 min read


How does Salt Affect The Process of Boiling Pasta
Pasta, a dish common in many households, yet it is fascinatingly intertwined to chemistry principles, such as salts' colligative...
Natalya K
Jan 5, 20253 min read


Time Crystals
In conventional science, crystals exhibit properties of infinitely tessellating patterns of particles, forming lattice looking frameworks...
Jeremy Zang
Jan 3, 20252 min read


Understanding ADHD: Brain Differences
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder often diagnosed in early childhood, with symptoms that may...
Valerie Wan
Jan 3, 20252 min read


Kitty Genovese and The Bystander Effect
The brutal murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in 1964 stands as one of the most significant cases in the history of social psychology,...
Nicole Luk
Jan 1, 20253 min read


Feynman's Age-old Spaghetti Dilemma: Why can't spaghetti be snapped in half?
Richard Feynman is a world renowned theoretical physicist, celebrated for his reworking of quantum electrodynamics and the development of...
Zixi Lin
Jan 1, 20252 min read


The Psychology of Insomnia: Let Me Tell You Why We Toss & Turn
We’ve all experienced sleepless nights. Perhaps you may very well be reading this at a rather untimely hour yourself. Contrary to chronic...
Onyiu Wong
Dec 30, 20242 min read


Understanding Resonance
Have you ever wondered how a string instrument can make different sounds when plucking different strings? Or how a singer could shatter a...
Lydia Tan
Dec 30, 20243 min read


The sixth sense : proprioception
You may have learned in the early days of school the 5 senses : touch, smell, sight, hearing and taste. But you may be unfamiliar with...
Siena Kontopirakis
Dec 28, 20243 min read


Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
As one of the most notorious criminals, the offensive legacy of Ted Bundy has struck interest within many. The intriguing coherence...
Vanessa Fok
Dec 28, 20243 min read


Moments, Center of Gravity, and Inertia
Figure 1: A Seesaw in Action Imagine you and your friend sitting on a seesaw (Ref. Figure 1). Almost certainly, someone would be dragged...
Skyler Siu
Dec 26, 20243 min read


The Psychology Behind Charisma and Leadership
What does it mean to have Charisma? Some may believe that it is the innate ability to make individuals respond through emotion....
Tyson Athit Drowns
Dec 26, 20243 min read


Telemetry in F1: The Invisible Communication Between Car and Pit
Races in Formula 1 are won and lost in the constant data exchange between the team and the car as well as on the circuit. Engineers at...
Ffion Collins
Dec 24, 20242 min read


ATP: Making Energy Inside the Mitochondria
Remember the burst of energy you get after a run or a workout or even the steady stamina you carry throughout the day, well you can thank...
Cheyenne Gracias
Dec 24, 20243 min read


Polyphasic Sleep: The Unorthodox Sleeping Pattern Behind Productivity and Potential Health Impacts
What do Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and Leonardo da Vinci have in common with today’s ambitious students? It’s an unconventional...
Yurino Hisamori
Dec 22, 20243 min read


The Psychology of Space: How Does It Affect Our Emotions?
Have you ever stepped into a room and, without really understanding why, felt calmer or more nervous? As it happens, our emotions and...
Chuan Lin
Dec 22, 20242 min read


Cultural Influences on Psychological Processes
In the past decade, a new interdisciplinary field of research called Cultural Neuroscience has emerged, investigating the unique...
Kary Zhu
Dec 20, 20242 min read


Hypoxia, Anoxia, and the Brain: What Happens When We Don’t Have Oxygen?
What happens during oxygen deprivation? Many of us have had moments in our lives where we experience the strain of holding our breath....
Danielle Tan
Dec 20, 20247 min read


Guardians or Game? Hunting in Protected Areas
In national parks, the line between preservation and predation blurs—is hunting helping or harming the wild? While some deem hunting to...
Ffion Collins
Dec 18, 20243 min read
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