June - 2017

Research - Neural Implants

How do brain cells communicate? The average adult human brain is made up of about 100 billion brain cells! Brain cells, which are also called neurons, communicate via the conduction of electrical currents called action potentials. An action potential is an electrical charge which travels from one neuron to another. A brain cell is said to “fire” when an action potential is transmitted from that brain cell to another. Brain cells are connected by junctions in the brain cal

Research - Cloning

What is genetics? The history of genetics began with the work of the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel. Mendel’s research on the characteristics of pea plants, which was published in 1866, described how genetic inheritance works. Through Mendel’s research, we have learned about the tendencies of genes to be inherited, or adopted into one’s genetic makeup. Inheriting a gene means that it is passed on from one generation to the next. Although Mendel did not know about DNA at

Story Ideas - Virtually Screwed

Virtually Screwed Green gets awoken suddenly by White and finds himself on an interstellar warship that’s landing on a hostile alien planet. White hands him a massive laser gun and tells him that they have to get going, the drop ship is leaving. They’re soldiers in the future fighting a war to claim a planet that had natural resources on it vital for earth’s survival. White tells Green that he was playing this video game the night before, but thought that it could be more rea

Research - Super-Computing

From the abacus to the modern computer human kind has always realized that our brains are not well suited for computing large scale numbers in an efficient manner (our brains do outperform modern computers in many other aspects though), thus we relied on machines to help us with these tasks. As technology continued to advance our lives became more and more reliant on our ability to process large quantities of data in the most efficient manner possible. Some of the fastest sup

Story Idea - Whispering Horses

Whispering Horses Doctor White has a dream about ‘horse whispering’, and decides that he wants to become a horse whisperer. When he tries whispering to horses, he finds them unrespsonsive, so he looks it up and finds that it takes years to master. He has the brighter idea to implant horses with an AI chip that makes them responsive to commands, when whispered. At first, it dazzles everyone, his mastery of horses that no one else can beat But then, quickly, he loses interest a