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CHAOS 2017 Edition Articles
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Submit Now: Email us your article or art/photo submission! Submission Guidelines: As long as you are a student at Clarkstown North, you may submit as many articles as you would like on a scientific topic of your choosing. These articles may be talking about recent breakthroughs/findings in science, may be science news articles/reports, science opinion articles, research abstracts, independent experiment papers, literature reviews, or just general informative articles about specific phenomenons. Download the most recent edition here Want it in Paper? You can buy one here |
Synesthesia
Angeline Castillo | 2017 Some people are able to taste colors or see sounds. People who experience this phenomenon are called synesthetes and they have synesthesia. Synesthesia is the condition in which one sense stimulates another sense involuntarily... A Feeling in My Gut
Lior Zweig | 2017 The human brain is notoriously the most complex part of the human body. It serves as the center of your nervous system, sending billions of electrical signals every moment to control your mood, speech, and thoughts. What if there were another part of you that could control your mood levels, your anxiety, and your depression?... When You Sleep...
Simona Kobryn | 2017 Sleep is such a desired essential in today’s world which many of us don’t get enough of, and frankly, many people don’t seem to question it. Sleep is just… sleep. However, what happens during sleep is phenomenal... Journey to Mars
Jessica Luu | 2017 Mars: our solar system’s fellow red planet. It has been 41 years since our first probe successfully landed on Mars. How long until we send our first humans on a mission to Mars? It may be sooner than you think... What is Addiction?
Maya Reddy | 2017 Whether it be nicotine, alcohol, gambling, shopping or even binge eating, all addictions develop due to the existence of similar psychological conditions... |
The Advancement of Holograms
Gregory Chang | 2017
What makes holograms so unique? A hologram is a three-dimensional image created from light. Holography uses laser lights to record the patterns of light waves reflected from an object onto the emulsion of light sensitive film...
Gregory Chang | 2017
What makes holograms so unique? A hologram is a three-dimensional image created from light. Holography uses laser lights to record the patterns of light waves reflected from an object onto the emulsion of light sensitive film...
Introversion vs. Extroversion
Celestine Castillo | 2017
Most people can be placed on a spectrum according to how much it takes to satisfy them. According to scientist Hans Eysenck, extroverts are people who need to do more exciting or extreme things to feel satisfied while introverts do not need as much to be happy...
Celestine Castillo | 2017
Most people can be placed on a spectrum according to how much it takes to satisfy them. According to scientist Hans Eysenck, extroverts are people who need to do more exciting or extreme things to feel satisfied while introverts do not need as much to be happy...
Save the Bees: An Environmental Necessity
Joseph Vayalumkal | 2017
There is a huge threat looming over our ecosystem today, and it may not be what you expect. The population of bees in the United States is falling at an unprecedented rate. These seemingly insignificant creatures hold the fate of our entire ecosystem in their antennas. Without them, the environment as we know it may cease to exist...
Joseph Vayalumkal | 2017
There is a huge threat looming over our ecosystem today, and it may not be what you expect. The population of bees in the United States is falling at an unprecedented rate. These seemingly insignificant creatures hold the fate of our entire ecosystem in their antennas. Without them, the environment as we know it may cease to exist...
The Pros and Cons of a Vegan Diet
Ailis Daly | 2017
For many, veganism is a drastic shift that alters the lifestyles and diets of individuals and families. The decision to go vegan, to cut all meat and animal byproduct out of one’s diet, can be very easy, or very difficult...
Ailis Daly | 2017
For many, veganism is a drastic shift that alters the lifestyles and diets of individuals and families. The decision to go vegan, to cut all meat and animal byproduct out of one’s diet, can be very easy, or very difficult...
Why Are Teens More Likely to Take Risks?
Corinne Cunillera| 2017
Teenagers are notoriously rebellious, often seeking out thrills that may be dangerous, or acting nonchalantly toward their own safety. Sometimes, teenagers act on such impulse that it may prompt many worried and frustrated parents to ask, “Do teenagers even have brains?”...
Corinne Cunillera| 2017
Teenagers are notoriously rebellious, often seeking out thrills that may be dangerous, or acting nonchalantly toward their own safety. Sometimes, teenagers act on such impulse that it may prompt many worried and frustrated parents to ask, “Do teenagers even have brains?”...
How Are Brown-Headed Cowbirds and Cuckoo Birds Nest Parasites?
Sophie Tatar| 2017
Early one morning, a cuckoo bird swoops into a bluebird’s small nest, as she is gone collecting worms. Upon the bluebird’s return, she finds an egg that does not seem to be hers...
Sophie Tatar| 2017
Early one morning, a cuckoo bird swoops into a bluebird’s small nest, as she is gone collecting worms. Upon the bluebird’s return, she finds an egg that does not seem to be hers...
What Climate Change Means for Human Health
Eve Murphy| 2017
What images arise when we think of destruction caused by climate change? Perhaps large floods, extreme seasonal changes, or storms? What doesn’t come to mind as often is the threat of disease...
Eve Murphy| 2017
What images arise when we think of destruction caused by climate change? Perhaps large floods, extreme seasonal changes, or storms? What doesn’t come to mind as often is the threat of disease...
Procrastination
Priyanka Ramanathan| 2017
Procrastination. It’s something that most people, especially teenagers, know all too well. People often can not stop procrastinating. Telling us to “plan better” will not solve the problem, and is just as effective as telling a depressed person to “cheer up” So then what’s the real issue, and how do we solve it?...
Priyanka Ramanathan| 2017
Procrastination. It’s something that most people, especially teenagers, know all too well. People often can not stop procrastinating. Telling us to “plan better” will not solve the problem, and is just as effective as telling a depressed person to “cheer up” So then what’s the real issue, and how do we solve it?...
Nonmotor and Motor Sequencing in Stutterers and Nonstutterers: A Literature Review
Mona Tong| 2017
In many older studies measuring finger movement in stutterers (PWS), researchers focused on the aspects of interference and unfamiliar sequence reproduction...
Mona Tong| 2017
In many older studies measuring finger movement in stutterers (PWS), researchers focused on the aspects of interference and unfamiliar sequence reproduction...
Hydroponics: An Experiment
Claire Downes | Hannah Kim| 2017
Hydroponics and Aquaponics have been used for many years as ways to effectively grow food and recreational plants...
Claire Downes | Hannah Kim| 2017
Hydroponics and Aquaponics have been used for many years as ways to effectively grow food and recreational plants...
CHAOS 2016 Edition Articles
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Fracking
Eve Murphy| 2016
What is a controversial element of American industry that encompasses issues of employment, environmentalism, health regulation, and resource independence? This is known to many as fracking...
Eve Murphy| 2016
What is a controversial element of American industry that encompasses issues of employment, environmentalism, health regulation, and resource independence? This is known to many as fracking...
Quantum Computing
Anton Repnikov| 2016
Computers get faster every year. At least, they have been, at a very fast and consistent rate. The creation of faster computers is attributed largely to the compression of more power into a smaller space, creating more efficient microprocessors...
Anton Repnikov| 2016
Computers get faster every year. At least, they have been, at a very fast and consistent rate. The creation of faster computers is attributed largely to the compression of more power into a smaller space, creating more efficient microprocessors...
Direct Cell Reprogramming
Vishal Mathew| 2016
It will “revolutionize what is already a revolutionary field”. This is George Daly’s, a stem cell researcher, description of the implications of Douglas Melton’s work in the scientific field of human cell conversion...
Vishal Mathew| 2016
It will “revolutionize what is already a revolutionary field”. This is George Daly’s, a stem cell researcher, description of the implications of Douglas Melton’s work in the scientific field of human cell conversion...
The Existence of Pink
Benjamin Livney| 2016
We can see because our eyes receive light reflected off of various objects, and those objects have color because it may absorb most frequencies of light but reflect one, say red, and another object may reflect violet and absorb all the others...
Benjamin Livney| 2016
We can see because our eyes receive light reflected off of various objects, and those objects have color because it may absorb most frequencies of light but reflect one, say red, and another object may reflect violet and absorb all the others...
Stem Cells
Kavya Atluri| 2016
Stem cells are leading the way to discovering incredible advancements in medical history. These cells of multicellular organisms have the capacity to differentiate into many different types of cells...
Kavya Atluri| 2016
Stem cells are leading the way to discovering incredible advancements in medical history. These cells of multicellular organisms have the capacity to differentiate into many different types of cells...
Neuroscience Behind Habits
Mona Tong| 2016
Bad habits. They are easily formed, difficult to get rid of, and easy to resume. From biting nails to smoking, picking up a bad habit is surprisingly easy...
Mona Tong| 2016
Bad habits. They are easily formed, difficult to get rid of, and easy to resume. From biting nails to smoking, picking up a bad habit is surprisingly easy...
The Science of Love
Celestine Castillo| 2016
“What is love?” asked singer, Haddaway, in 1993. Well, it is unclear whether or not the question could ever be answered fully simply because the concept of love, although deeply explored by scientists, still remains somewhat of a mystery...
Celestine Castillo| 2016
“What is love?” asked singer, Haddaway, in 1993. Well, it is unclear whether or not the question could ever be answered fully simply because the concept of love, although deeply explored by scientists, still remains somewhat of a mystery...
Exploring Genetics and Neurology: An Interview
Elad Raymond| 2016
An interview of Deborah Raymond M.S., Mount Sinai Beth Israel, conducted by Elad Raymond...
Elad Raymond| 2016
An interview of Deborah Raymond M.S., Mount Sinai Beth Israel, conducted by Elad Raymond...
Red Meats and Colorectal Cancer
Harrison Garcia| 2016
Cancer has been a prominent aspect of our medical culture for thousands of years, first recorded in an ancient Egyptian medical text from 1600 BC. Even though this disease has been recorded and studied for such an immense time span, more than 7,000,000 people die from it each year...
Harrison Garcia| 2016
Cancer has been a prominent aspect of our medical culture for thousands of years, first recorded in an ancient Egyptian medical text from 1600 BC. Even though this disease has been recorded and studied for such an immense time span, more than 7,000,000 people die from it each year...
The Future of Prosthetics
Maya Reddy| 2016
Since the invention of the first prosthetic, biomedical engineers and scientists have been working to create devices that are able to satisfy the diverse conditions of various amputees. Van Phillips, who invented the first prosthetic leg in the 1980’s, was an amputee himself...
Maya Reddy| 2016
Since the invention of the first prosthetic, biomedical engineers and scientists have been working to create devices that are able to satisfy the diverse conditions of various amputees. Van Phillips, who invented the first prosthetic leg in the 1980’s, was an amputee himself...
The Stuttering Brain
Mona Tong| 2016
Stuttering is still considered to be a relatively understudied topic among scientists. Many questions about stuttering remain unanswered, and much of the research and data collected still remains undeciphered...
Mona Tong| 2016
Stuttering is still considered to be a relatively understudied topic among scientists. Many questions about stuttering remain unanswered, and much of the research and data collected still remains undeciphered...
Suppression
Simar Goyal| 2016
Have you ever tried to stop thinking about something, but then found it impossible? Suppression is a popular method of mind control in which someone consciously tries to remove thoughts of something from their mind. However, in the process of trying to govern their minds, people actually surrender control...
Simar Goyal| 2016
Have you ever tried to stop thinking about something, but then found it impossible? Suppression is a popular method of mind control in which someone consciously tries to remove thoughts of something from their mind. However, in the process of trying to govern their minds, people actually surrender control...
The Key to the Neuroscience Behind Tone-Deafness
Eve Murphy| 2016
The idea of tone-deafness might instantly remind you of that specific friend who is always off-key, or maybe you are grimly reminded of yourself, but science reveals that most individuals who claim to be “tone deaf”, really just need practice. Yet there are some people that cannot find a pitch, despite training, and these fall under a category of individuals with congenital amusia...
Eve Murphy| 2016
The idea of tone-deafness might instantly remind you of that specific friend who is always off-key, or maybe you are grimly reminded of yourself, but science reveals that most individuals who claim to be “tone deaf”, really just need practice. Yet there are some people that cannot find a pitch, despite training, and these fall under a category of individuals with congenital amusia...
Why Are Some Things Perceived as "Creepy"?
Lior Zweig| 2016
A laughing doll, a sad clown, humanoid robot, or a stranger in a smiling mask. The mere idea of these objects somehow manages to give most people the chills. Why are people “creeped” out by objects that don’t seem to pose much of a direct threat to anyone?...
Lior Zweig| 2016
A laughing doll, a sad clown, humanoid robot, or a stranger in a smiling mask. The mere idea of these objects somehow manages to give most people the chills. Why are people “creeped” out by objects that don’t seem to pose much of a direct threat to anyone?...
Continuing Controversies
Editor-in-Chiefs, Mona Tong & Eve Murphy| 2016
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in Paris, France, from November 30 to December 12 2015. This was of major significance in environmental science as over 190 countries met to discuss cooperation in combating climate change...
Editor-in-Chiefs, Mona Tong & Eve Murphy| 2016
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in Paris, France, from November 30 to December 12 2015. This was of major significance in environmental science as over 190 countries met to discuss cooperation in combating climate change...
The 2015 Nobel Prizes in Scientific Fields
Michael Brill| 2016
In his will, Alfred Nobel left money that he assigned to be rewarded to the highest achieving person in each given field. The first three fields he mentioned were, in order: physics, chemistry, and physiology, or medicine...
Michael Brill| 2016
In his will, Alfred Nobel left money that he assigned to be rewarded to the highest achieving person in each given field. The first three fields he mentioned were, in order: physics, chemistry, and physiology, or medicine...
Looking Back at the Scientific Discoveries of 2015
Eylon Arbel| 2016
The field of science has had some revolutionary discoveries and moments in 2015, it would only be appropriate to summarize all the amazing new advances in science during the past year. Every year, brilliant minds are put to work trying to find new ways to better our world and change everyday life...
Eylon Arbel| 2016
The field of science has had some revolutionary discoveries and moments in 2015, it would only be appropriate to summarize all the amazing new advances in science during the past year. Every year, brilliant minds are put to work trying to find new ways to better our world and change everyday life...