18 February 2026 Nina He Assignment 11 Option 1: Write a Hard News Article! ICE Agents Shoot Alex Pretti On January 24th, the second fatal ICE shooting occurred; in Minnesota, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a...
4 December 2025 Jameson Dai Northern White Rhinoceros on The Brink of Extinction Fatu and Najin are the last two living Northern White Rhinos after Sudan, the last living male, died by being euthanized at the age of 45 on March, 19, 2018 in Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The species was driven to being functionally extinct by poaching, habitat loss, and war.
25 August 2025 Austin Tsao Legendary Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Is Just “One of The Guys” Legendary Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Is Just "One of The Guys" As a relatively new member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, quarterback...
4 December 2025 Eileen Chen Otter Surfboard Hijackers Make Waves again in Santa Cruz, California On October 15, 2025, amidst the rolling waves of Steamer Lane, a renowned surf break in Santa Cruz, California, 21-year-old college student Isabella Orduna was wrapping up a surf session when she felt something pinch her foot. She ditched her board and jumped into the chilly Pacific, only to find “a big, fuzzy, chunky bear of an otter” lounging on her surfboard. Orduna recounted, “I was like, wow, what do I do now?”, as her board had been seized by an uninvited otter.
18 February 2026 Nina He AI Finally Being Used For Good AI Finally Being Used For Good Let's admit it. When we first heard of AI getting scary good, we all...
12 February 2026 Joe Wang Her Last Spark In the last evening of the year, the wind was blowing, the snow was falling. Everyone was at home with cheer, but on the street, a poor little girl was wandering.
ONE LIGHT PARTICLE CAN START OFF PHOTOSYNTHESIS 8 August 2024 Jessica Jin ONE LIGHT PARTICLE CAN START OFF PHOTOSYNTHESIS In a paper published in Nature on June 14, researchers confirmed the hypothesis that a single photon can start photosynthesis....
ANCIENT AUSTRALIAN MESSAGE STICKS 23 August 2023 Jessica Jin Science & Technology ANCIENT AUSTRALIAN MESSAGE STICKS Around the 1800s, the first Australian message sticks were found. These sticks were used thousands of years ago by Aboriginal...
VOLUNTEERS BEGIN YEAR-LONG MOCK MISSION ON MARS 22 August 2023 Jessica Jin Science & Technology VOLUNTEERS BEGIN YEAR-LONG MOCK MISSION ON MARS On June 25, four volunteers, Kelly Haston, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones, and Anca Selariu, started a year-long simulation of a...
MAUI FACES THE DESTRUCTION OF FATAL FIRES 21 August 2023 Jessica Jin Arts & Culture MAUI FACES THE DESTRUCTION OF FATAL FIRES On Tuesday, August 8, the most brutal wildfires Hawaii has ever faced began in Lahaina, western Maui. Most of the...
Together 18 August 2023 Jessica Jin Creative Writing Together It was a cold Saturday night in late October. The clouds covered most of the full moon. On a street,...
AI CAN GENERATE STORYTELLING VIDEO 17 August 2023 Jessica Jin Science & Technology AI CAN GENERATE STORYTELLING VIDEO When using social media apps like TikTok, you may have seen AI-generated storytelling videos. While they might seem harmless at...
