Across the country, the upcoming midterm elections on Tuesday, November 8th, 2022, are looming large. President Biden’s agenda stands in the balance as Democrats and Republicans fight for control over...

According to the United Nations (U.N.), below average rainfall across East Africa has created some of the driest conditions in four decades leaving more than 13 million people severely food insecure. Seasonal...

The hum of electric bikes is not new to New York City. Residents might recognize the buzz of makeshift electric delivery bikes with motors attached from years prior, but this year, the noise is deafening....

When you think of plastic inside a human being, you probably think about plastic surgery and the various implants involved. However, nowadays you might have plastic inside your lungs, blood, or organs...

As New York has reopened over the last months, millions have finally started to return to their pre-pandemic lives, even though the COVID-19 pandemic is still very much a part of our lives. The great...

December 17th, 2001. After two months of fighting, US-led military forces drove the Taliban out of Kabul as part of the Global War on Terrorism, commonly abbreviated as GWOT. The campaign, as described...

“Do you wish to be represented for purposes of collective bargaining by Amazon Labor Union?” read the ballot placed in front of nearly 5,000 Amazon workers on April 2022 at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse...

For eighteen months, the central government of Ethiopia has tried to reestablish control over the Northern Tigray Region. The war is only the last installment of a decades-long conflict between the...

Back in 2019, many high school students were intrigued to learn of a proposal in the State of New Mexico to make all state colleges in New Mexico tuition-free. When I wrote about the plan for free college,...

The first recorded piece of war propaganda is widely recognized as an epic collection of short film reels created by American forces in the Spanish-American war. American media fabricated atrocities, emphasized...

Horizontal gene transfer sounds like a modern discovery in bioengineering. As it turns out, it is a completely natural process and has been taking place for years within the environmental world. Think...

In New York City, with one of the highest vaccination rates in America, almost 90% of New Yorkers have received at least one dose of a Coronavirus vaccine, and over three-fourths are fully vaccinated....

“Serve the people! Serve the people!” Residents of a locked down community in Shanghai protest from behind the chain-link fence that encircles their block. Days after Shanghai’s 2-month long lockdown...

Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives are in a precarious position. The difference between a Democratic-controlled Senate and a Republican one is just a single seat. Whether it is the general...

The surgical treatment of brain, spine, and nerve diseases is the focus of neurological surgery, sometimes known as neurosurgery, such as aneurysms, brain tumors, spinal stenosis, hydrocephalus, and more....

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been far-reaching in New York, and have resulted in yet another dilemma facing the city: fake license plates.  The number of fake, obscured, or absent...

Over the last decade, the usage of automated journalism has increased exponentially – so much so that you have probably read an article written by an ‘AI journalist’ before, maybe without even realizing...

America, at the moment, is restless with what seems to be the peak of the ongoing fight over abortion rights, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24th, 2022. Given the uncertainty that...

Tail-chasing is a ubiquitous behavior that is seen in dogs around the world. Although the behavior seems rather normal, tail-chasing could actually be the result of something more daunting. “Occasional...

 Who would have thought that one day scientists would be using modified versions of pathogenic viruses, like HIV and HPV, to cure rare genetic disorders? These disorders have always been difficult...