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SNHS Biology Blog 19: Runoff - One of North Fulton's Greatest Sources of Pollution
Sriram Yerneni Water pollution is a global threat that warrants urgent action to solve; it has far-reaching consequences that greatly...
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Dec 19, 20202 min read
SNHS Biology Blog 18: How Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat Milkweed
Sriram Yerneni The milkweed plant is something unpalatable for most animals. It contains bitter toxins called cardenolides that induce...
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Dec 19, 20202 min read
SNHS Science Blog 3: Dimensions
Clara Jeon We have all gone to the movies and saw a movie in “4D.” But is 4D really watching something with your seats moving? Not at...
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Dec 19, 20201 min read
SNHS Physics Blog 9: Astrophysics
Clara Jeon Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered.. Why is it blue? Why can’t it be pink, or green, or purple? There is a...
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Dec 19, 20202 min read
SNHS Science Blog 2: Philosophy
Clara Jeon Imagine you are a professor named Mary. Your whole world is black and white. You read black and white books. You live in a...
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Dec 19, 20202 min read
SNHS Biology Blog 17: Bioinformatics Vs. Computational Biology
Shriya Mahakala What Is Bioinformatics? Bioinformatics is the application of computer science to analyze data. It is typically used to...
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Dec 19, 20202 min read
SNHS Science Blog 1: Astronomy
Shalini Ballur The universe is undoubtedly big. There are about two trillion galaxies in our universe alone. Scientists use a Hubble...
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Dec 19, 20202 min read
SNHS Biology Blog 16: Cloning
Shalini Ballur What is cloning? Cloning is the process of producing genetically identical DNA. Dolly, the sheep, was cloned using the...
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SNHS Biology Blog 15: Coronavirus
Shalini Ballur The Covid-19 virus is an RNA virus. An RNA virus has a higher mutation rate than a DNA virus which means that it can...
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Dec 19, 20202 min read
SNHS Biology Blog 14: Genes May Influence COVID-19 Risk
Ria Mathew With COVID-19 on the rise, scientists have discovered genetic links which make certain people more susceptible to getting the...
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Dec 19, 20202 min read
SNHS Biology Blog 13: ‘Spider-Man’ Immune Response May Promote Severe COVID-19
Ria Mathew Neutrophils, or cells involved with the immune system shows potential in the fight against COVID-19. Neutrophils compose a...
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Dec 19, 20202 min read
SNHS Biology Blog 12: Gibberellins
Shriya Mahakala What Are Gibberellins? Gibberellins are a group of plant hormones that help in development processes such as flowering...
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Dec 18, 20202 min read
SNHS Biology Blog 11: The Complement System
Eric Liu When you think of the immune system, what comes to mind? T-Cells, antibodies, phagocytes? All these parts would not be able to...
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Dec 18, 20202 min read
SNHS Biology Blog 10: CRISPR Cas-9
Eric Liu Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR, was discovered when studying a bacterial mechanism created to...
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Dec 18, 20202 min read
SNHS Biology Blog 9: To Emerge or to Engage
Sonal Churiwal Don’t judge a book by its cover. I learnt it by wasting my money on a really bad book just because it came with a free...
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Dec 17, 20202 min read
SNHS Physics Blog 8: Ballistic Pendulums
Yunhui Shim It was 1742, when Benjamin Robins, an English mathematician and engineer invented the ballistic pendulum, which in his days...
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SNHS Physics Blog 7: Momentum
Yunhui Shim Each moving object has two identifiable characteristics. They are mass and velocity. When skating on a skateboard and...
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Dec 17, 20202 min read
SNHS Physics Blog 6: Free Fall
Yunhui Shim When we step from a diving board to drop into the pool, air resistance has very little effect on the motion. In fact, our...
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Dec 17, 20202 min read
SNHS Physics Blog 5: Work and its Relationship to Energy
Yunhui Shim When we pull a heavy suitcase through the airport or push a heavy shopping cart in a store, we are doing work. These are some...
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Dec 17, 20203 min read
SNHS Physics Blog 4: Friction
Yunhui Shim When we push a food tray across the cafeteria table, and see it come to a stop, we know that we are experiencing friction....
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Dec 17, 20203 min read
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