As life returns to normal, leaders of companies across the world are facing one question: whether to allow workers to continue working at home or come back to the office. Throughout the pandemic, we have seen many articles citing studies that show...
Recently, the United States Senate passed a bill that would keep Daylight Savings Time (DST) permanent starting from 2023. Often, the order of which the clock is moved is convoluted: DST moves clocks forward an hour to provide the illusion of “more...
Hi everyone, welcome back to 90 Second STEM, I’m Michael Tung, I will be your host for the last episode of 2021. Before we get started I would just like to apologize for being away for quite some time: college applications took up a large chunk of...
Lake Mead sits on the Nevada, Arizona border, and it provides 25 million people access to drinking water up and down the West Coast of the United States. The iconic Hoover Dam is situated at Lake Mead. It’s the largest drinking...
One of the North and South pole’s most iconic spectacles is the Northern Lights or Aurora as they are officially called. For generations, hundreds of civilians and scientists alike have wondered what exactly causes these bizarre looking halos...
The American West is one of the most famous regions in the United States, known for its beautiful scenery and immense wildlife. Recently, a controversial bill that would kill off 90% of Idaho’s grey wolf population was passed in the Idaho...
Out of our 5 senses, I would argue that the most important one is the sense of sight. Most of us take it for granted everyday, that when we wake up, we just expect to see everything that we love and hate as soon as our eyes open. However, for many...
According to an early 2020 survey conducted by NPR, 3 out of 5 Americans say that they are lonely, and that they are “left out, poorly understood and lacking companionship”. Since the survey was taken pre pandemic, it can be properly assumed that...
One of the major campaign promises from the Trump administration from 2016 was his border wall. Immediately after he vowed that he was going to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, it was faced immediately by backlash by pro...
Hi everyone, welcome back to 90 Second STEM, I’m Michael Tung, I will be your host for the last episode of 2020. This year has been a tough year for all of us, one way or another our lives have been affected in one way or another, and today I...
In this month’s 90 Second Stem, we will learn what rare earth elements are, what they’re used for and some recent developments regarding how they are extracted. I’m Michael Tung, and I will be your host for today. To start, rare...
Alternative Plastics Plastic is everywhere in our daily lives: the straw for our morning iced coffee, the baggie our sandwich goes in, and the pens and pencils we use. Obviously, excessively using plastic will not be good for the planet in...