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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
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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
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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
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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
38 minutes ago3 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
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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
39 minutes ago3 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
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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
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Novel MXene Synthesis Method Increases Electrical Conductivity by 160x
By Kate Wei; Outreach Columnist; The Lawrenceville School, NJ In the rapidly advancing world of nanomaterials, even the smallest imperfections can bear consequences. Imagine a material as thin as a few atoms, capable of conducting electricity better than metals and shielding devices from harmful electromagnetic waves. MXenes, a class of two-dimensional materials first discovered in 2011, have long promised exactly that. Now, a new synthesis method using halogen vapor has incr
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Artemis 2: Humanity’s Return to Deep Space Begins
By Shane Mayer, The Lawrenceville School, NJ On April 1, 2026, NASA launched Artemis 2, a 10-day mission that traveled around the moon carrying a crew of four aboard the Orion spacecraft. The spacecraft returned Friday, April 10th, marking the first crewed mission to the Moon or beyond low Earth orbit in 50 years and reached a record-setting distance for human spaceflight (traveled 252,756 miles away from Earth). Artemis 2 served as a critical test flight, gathering informati
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Antimatter on the Move: Physicists Transport the Universe’s Rarest Substance
By Diya Poluru; Technology Columnist; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Antimatter - among the world’s rarest, most mysterious, and most expensive substances, typically known to cost over $60 trillion per gram. Antimatter is extremely fragile and difficult to handle, and upon contact with the matter that makes up our world, it could annihilate. However, last month, physicists successfully transported antimatter by truck for the first time, safely moving trapped antiprotons across
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A New Celestial Object: Rubies
By Max Garsten; Chapter Head ; Choate Rosemary Hall, CT When the James Webb Space Telescope began peering into the distant universe, astronomers expected to see the first faint galaxies and stars. But surprisingly, the astronomers also found tiny red dots that don't match any known celestial object. Researchers have been calling them little red dots (LRDs), or informally “rubies” (Nature, Ahart, 2025). These objects, seen with light from a universe less than two billion years
Mar 273 min read
AI Security vs. National Security: The Pentagon's Clash with Anthropic and OpenAI
By Anvi Anand ’27, Oceana Li ’27, Kate Choi ’28, Diya Poluru ’29; Tech Column; The Lawrenceville School, NJ In March 2026, a dispute over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in military environments arose between the San Francisco-based AI research company Anthropic and the U.S. government. Tensions between the company’s policies and military usage of their products were high, especially after the Venezuela incident, in which AI was utilized in an operation to capture Ve
Mar 186 min read
AWS Blackout: The Centralized Cloud Crash that Took Down the Web
By Diya Poluru ’29; Tech Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ On Monday January 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage. However, the outage did not just affect sites like Amazon, but actually took a multitude of applications and online tools offline, affecting people from all around the world. AWS is described by CNBC as the “leading provider of cloud infrastructure technology, accounting for about a third of the market”. When AWS crashed, the outage took do
Mar 95 min read
Quantum Levitation: Subzero Temperatures and Suspended in Air
By Diya Poluru; Tech Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Picture this: a disc of yttrium barium copper oxide, a superconductor, discovered in liquid nitrogen boiling into gas at room temperature, hovering above a track of magnets. No strings attached, nothing holding the disc up except pure science. You wave your hand beneath it, above it, but it stays put. You even tilt it at an angle, and it remains there, suspended in the air. Give the disc a quick push with your fin
Feb 275 min read
Rainbow Microchip: An Accidental Discovery That Could Revolutionize Data Systems
By Sophia Wang, The Lawrenceville, NJ Researchers at Columbia University’s Gaeta Lab discovered a microchip enabling the creation of a powerful frequency comb. This finding is revolutionary given its compressed size, energy-efficiency, and increased power output compared to traditional methods of frequency comb creation (Gil-Molina et al., 2025). Dubbed as “rainbow chips,” these microchips were, in fact, accidentally uncovered as scientists were working on a project to enhanc
Dec 9, 20253 min read
Starship’s New Flight Plan: SpaceX’s Push toward Orbital Reusability
By Ananya Chopra, The Lawrenceville School, NJ As the most powerful launch vehicle ever built, Starship represents a vision for a reusable and scalable space transport system that will transform the spaceflight industry. Its design for full reusability, massive payloads, and deep-space missions has the potential to transform the future of human space exploration, satellite logistics, and commercial access to orbit. Unlike traditional rockets, which discard the upper stages a
Dec 6, 20254 min read
ATMO: Aerially Transforming Morphobot
By Naomi Choe, Jonathan Li, Jason Peng Technology Group; Fairbanks BEST Homeschool, AK Image sourced from nature.com Scientists at Caltech have developed a new robot called ATMO, or Aerially Transforming Morphobot, which can smoothly transition between drive and flight by transforming in mid-air. Most of the morphobot’s function and structure is similar to both drones and robocars. ATMO’s four rotors used for flight fold down so that the shrouds protecting the rotors become w
Dec 4, 20253 min read
Possible Cure for Neurodegenerative Diseases? Huntington’s Progress Slowed 75% by Gene Therapy
by Aarav Shah, Biochem Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ For an extensive amount of time, researchers have struggled to find an effective remedy for Huntington’s disease – one that could both slow down Huntington’s progression and associated symptoms. However, in the late days of September 2025, researchers part of the company UniQure produced promising results for finding Huntington’s potential cure. Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease, one that is cau
Dec 3, 20253 min read
The First AI Lens of the Future: Meta Ray-Ban Display
By Blake Hatwood Biochem Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ In September 2025, Meta unveiled its most advanced wearable technology: the Meta Ray-Ban Display , a pair of AI-powered glasses incorporating real-time artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities with augmented reality (AR) design. Unlike prior smart eyewear, these glasses are supported by Meta’s Neural Band , an electromyography (EMG) wristband that translates subtle muscle signals into precise digital commands.
Nov 28, 20253 min read
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