Written by Melvi Agolli | Editer by Evan DeTurk Past psychological literature has highlighted how parental and peer influences can impact children’s use of YouTube, either in problematic or adaptive ways. For example a parent might stress the importance of the educational side of YouTube, […]

by Ayanava Ganguly | Edited by Maryam Kamel Depression has become one of the major public health crises sweeping through the United States. Each year, almost 10% of all adult Americans will suffer from a depressive episode or illness, and the numbers are only continuing […]

by Hannah Van Dusen | Edited by Andrew Guo According to the National Interagency Fire Center, the United States has seen more wildfires in 2022 than in any other year in the past decade, with more than 56,000 fires burning through 7 million acres. With […]

by Samantha Borenstein | Edited by Andrew Guo Within the past two years, there has been a sharp increase in weight gain and obesity in US children between 2 and 19 years old.  It is natural for children to gain weight, especially as they are […]

by Isadora Rivera-Janer | Edited by Nannette Beckley Zoonotic diseases have become some of the most pressing issues in current events, with diseases such as monkeypox and Covid-19 emerging to be extremely widespread and devastating. Though zoonotic diseases are not at all a new phenomenon, […]

by Samantha Borenstein | Edited by Andrew Guo While medications are incredibly useful tools, capable of both improving quality of life and thwarting death, they can also be misused or abused, resulting in irreversible damage.  Though prescription drug abuse has existed for decades, it has […]

by Hannah Van Dusen | Edited by Cecilia Kim As the largest carbon dioxide reservoir in the world, the ocean contains a large portion of the greenhouse gasses produced by society. Oceans store far more carbon than both the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere, and their […]

by Christine Nguyen | Edited by Cecilia Kim With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the development of vaccines, there has been a great deal of worry surrounding the existing virus and its impact on our health care system. In the era of COVID-19, there have […]