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Inside the Bloodstream: Micro-robots That Could Transform Stroke Treatment
By Emily Ma; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Imagine this: a robot, smaller than a grain of rice, navigating through your bloodstream straight to a life threatening blood clot. According to the American Heart Association’s 2024 report, strokes remain a major health concern as the fifth leading cause of deaths in the U.S. However, treating these blood clots poses a significant challenge because the human vascular system is an intricate network of delicate blood vessels, leading
21 hours ago3 min read
Hubble Telescope Finds New Celestial Object Cloud-9
By Cara Kellman; The Lawrenceville School, NJ On January 5, 2026, NASA announced the first-ever confirmed detection of a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter galaxy, known as Cloud-9. In 2023, astronomers discovered Cloud-9 (named for being the ninth gas cloud identified on the outskirts of a nearby spiral galaxy called Messier 94) using China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to pick up radio data and solar emissions from the cloud’s 1 million masses of
21 hours ago3 min read
Quantum Physics Meets Gravity: Scientists Move a Floating Diamond Using Electron Spins
By Gia Jing; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Quantum mechanics has a strange property: superposition, which states that particles can exist in multiple states at once. In 1935, physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposed a famous thought experiment. A cat sits inside a closed box with a radioactive atom, which is an unstable atom that can break apart or decay at any moment. If the atom decays, it triggers a device that releases poison into the box. Until someone opens the box, the atom
21 hours ago4 min read
Find Carbon Dioxide Sponge Amidst Volcanic Rubble in the South Atlantic
By Madisen Kim; The Lawrenceville School, NJ The carbon cycle, or the processes in which carbon is cycled through different carbon reservoirs, originated when Earth did, regulating atmospheric temperatures, sustaining ecosystems and plants, and providing the backbone of all living things by building DNA and proteins. Yet today, an excess of atmospheric carbon dioxide poses many threats to the earth and leads many to fear for its health. Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that
21 hours ago3 min read
Wall Street’s Next Giants: The Trillion Dollar IPO Race
Diya Poluru, Technology Columnist; The Lawrenceville School, NJ When SpaceX rang the Nasdaq opening bell on June 12, 2026, it catalyzed the largest IPO ever seen at a $1.77 trillion valuation, briefly making Elon Musk richer than any person in history within the next few weeks. OpenAI was meant to follow, so why did it pull back? SpaceX, one of the world’s most valuable private companies as of the last decade, had finally gone public. Investors piled in almost immediately, br
21 hours ago5 min read
Engineering Neuron Growth: How Molecular Precision Could Transform Regenerative Medicine
By Kate Choi; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Neurons have limited regenerative abilities in many parts of the central nervous system, making conditions involving nerve damage difficult to treat. As a result, regenerative medicine has been constantly receiving attention, especially when it comes to degenerative neural diseases. In October 2026, a group of researchers at Northwestern University developed exceptionally long, thread-like molecular structures called supramolecular p
21 hours ago3 min read
Smart Pills: An Innovation in Pills and Long-term Treatments
In January 2026, MIT researchers developed “smart pills,” that essentially can report when it has been swallowed. Giovanni Traverso’s team at MIT identified the prolonged issue of medication non-adherence, of patients’ failure to take their medicines as prescribed, as a major challenge responsible for a number of preventable deaths and health costs. Striving for a way to tackle this problem, Traverso’s team developed a bioresorbable, passive radio frequency identification (RF
21 hours ago3 min read
CR450: An Innovation in High Speed Railway Technology
By Kate Choi; The Lawrenceville School, NJ On October 21st, CR450 set a new record in high speed rail technology with a speed of 450km/h in testing and is now titled the “world’s fastest train.” China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) began developing CR450 in 2021. It is an electric multiple unit (EMU), meaning that it is a self-propelled train made up of carriages that have their own electric motors. It has the capacity of about 552 passengers. Beyond speed, the trai
21 hours ago4 min read
New Glenn’s Big Leap: Blue Origin’s Milestone Toward Reusable Orbit
By Kate Choi; The Lawrenceville School, NJ At 3:55 pm ET on November 13, 2025, New Glenn successfully launched twin NASA spacecraft (ESCAPADE) and landed the fully reusable first stage booster on a drone ship, demonstrating Blue Origin's capability and inspiring confidence in space innovation. Blue Origin was one of the companies that participated in NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program. The program plans to support the development of
21 hours ago4 min read
Hemopurifier to Treat Ebola
By Aarav Shah; Technology Columnist; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Long a major problem and currently spreading a frightening wave across parts of the African continent, Ebola continues to resurge into the mainstream population in certain parts of the world. The Ebola disease is caused by becoming infected with orthoebolavirus, and the current associated mortality rate with Ebola stands at approximately eighty to ninety percent depending on the severity. This specific type of
Aug 42 min read
Training Robots to Read Emotions
By Aarav Shah, Technology Columnist; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Both robots and artificial intelligence have come a long way, developing from returning speech input manually to displaying dexterity and other physical exercises. Yet, with the question of robots' feasibility in the workplace and the potential replacement of human jobs, one thing is certain. If robots are heightened to initiate this major turning point in the world's history, then they need to be able to analy
Aug 43 min read
Novel Pacemakers Alternative
By Aarav Shah; Technology Columnist; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Conventionally, pacemakers are frequently used by many patients worldwide in an effort to establish a regular, consistent, and rhythmic heartbeat. In more detail, pacemakers are small, battery-operated devices that have an objective of ensuring that the heartbeat is not at too slow of a pace. There are multiple different types and variations of pacemakers: single chamber pacemakers, dual chamber pacemakers, and
Aug 43 min read
Sandook: A Breakthrough in Data Center Efficiency
By Sophia Wang; Physics and Aerospace Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Given the rising demand for data centers, a new system developed by MIT researchers to optimize their performance has the potential to transform the tech industry. Typical methods used to increase efficiency such as acquiring advanced hardware or upgrading old infrastructure can be expensive and impractical. However, this breakthrough in software provides a way to optimize data centers at a comparat
Jul 93 min read
AI-Driven Discovery of Solar Fuel Catalysts: The Future of Clean Energy
By Aadya Agarwal; Biology and Chemistry Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ As climate change remains a global issue, the pivot from fossil fuels to renewable energy is only becoming more urgent. Although robust methods have been developed for capturing energy from a variety of sources, transporting and storing it effectively remains a central challenge. Recently, this gap has been addressed by the innovation of solar fuel catalysts which can efficiently convert sunlight
Jul 93 min read
Engineering Programmable Artificial Organelles
By Elena Shen; Outreach Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Researchers from UCLA have developed a way to use RNA to build and program artificial organelles. The lead author of the study on this approach, Shiyi Li, stated, “We can control how and where these RNA droplets form and what they attract, effectively creating new, temporary rooms inside the cell furnished with selected molecular tools”. This method allows scientists to control the size, location, and function of
Jul 93 min read
Photon Teleportation Breakthrough: Quantum Information Travels Through Open Air
By Ishika Mahadani, The Lawrenceville School, NJ This paper explores how quantum teleportation works, the challenges involved in transmitting quantum information, and what recent breakthroughs mean for the future of communication. Quantum teleportation is a way to send the state of a quantum particle from one place to another, without moving the particle itself. [insert whoever found this] recently found that quantum communication could one day work outside carefully controll
Jul 93 min read
Beyond Textbooks: Reversing the Central Dogma of Biology
By Aadya Agarwal; Biology and Chemistry Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Until April of 2026, biological science revolved around one central dogma: the structured process of converting genetic information that is stored in DNA to RNA, and finally, to functional products like proteins. However, Stanford researchers recently discovered a bacterial defense system that can synthesize DNA using its own protein structure as an outline. This finding demonstrates the possibili
Jul 92 min read
Listening and Seeing: The Rise of AI-Powered Camera Earbuds
By Diya Poluru; Technology Columnist; The Lawrenceville School, NJ In 1816, the first camera was invented. In the 1880s, the first headphones were invented. Far before the age of Bluetooth and miniscule, portable cameras, people could barely fathom the future of these two revolutionary technologies. But now, with technologies ranging from cameras that can fit in one’s palm and wireless earbuds, a new technology emerges: VueBuds. On April 13th, 2026, researchers at the Univer
Jul 93 min read
Quantum Batteries Break Expectations: Bigger Systems Charge Faster
By Emily Ma, The Lawrenceville School, NJ Imagine plugging in an electronic device and having it fully charged in seconds. With quantum batteries, this can become a reality. Researchers Rober Alicki and Mark Fannes, in 2013, proposed a method of storing and releasing energy with quantum mechanics that would allow batteries to be more efficient, durable, and convenient. Instead of relying on chemical reactions like conventional lithium-ion batteries, quantum batteries utilize
Jul 93 min read
Innovative Enzyme Inhibitor Treatment for Prostate Cancer
By Esha Desai; Physics & Aerospace Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ 1 in 8 men in their lifetime will develop prostate cancer, the second most common cancer in men worldwide. Prostate cancer occurs when prostate gland cells duplicate uncontrollably, causing debilitating symptoms such as bone pain and weakness in the arms and legs. Traditional treatments for prostate cancer are chemotherapy and radiation therapy. However, these treatments are costly, and prostate cancer
Jul 93 min read
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