/oss/taxonomy/term/3080/all en /oss/article/infographics/2023-year-review <p style="text-align:center"><img height="1603" width="500" class="media-element file-extra-large no-float" src="/oss/files/oss/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/2023_year_in_review_infographic_0.png?itok=S5m4OctP" alt="" /><!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--></p> Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:32:55 +0000 Cat Wang, B.Sc. 9774 at /oss /oss/article/infographics/2019-year-review <p>Scroll to the bottom for links to the articles.</p> <p><img height="4448" width="1200" style="width: 600px; height: 2224px;" class="file-original " src="/oss/files/oss/2019_year_in_review-recovered_0.jpg" alt="" /></p> Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:29:54 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 8059 at /oss /oss/article/infographics-general-science/our-best-articles-2018 <p>Here at the Ŕ¦°óSMÉçÇř OSS it's been a busy year! We have produced a lot of content this year, and wanted to summarize some of our top articles in case you missed them, <strong>click on any article title to see the full version!</strong></p> Sat, 29 Dec 2018 17:43:02 +0000 Ada McVean BSc. 7512 at /oss /oss/article/did-you-know-infographics/there-are-more-ways-arrange-deck-cards-there-are-atoms-earth <p>Think of your last card game – euchre, poker, Go Fish, whatever it was. Would you believe every time you gave the whole deck a proper shuffle, you were holding a sequence of cards which had never before existed in all of history? Consider how many card games must have taken place across the world since the beginning of humankind. No one has or likely ever will hold the exact same arrangement of 52 cards as you did during that game.</p> Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:00:00 +0000 Cassandra Lee, OSS Contributor 7151 at /oss /oss/article/did-you-know/rabbits-reproduction-and-making-mochi-moon <p><span>Rabbits have an undoubtedly important association with Easter, but they’ve played important roles in many societies through the ages. </span></p> Sun, 01 Apr 2018 15:56:09 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 6986 at /oss /oss/article/technology/e-readers-are-more-paper-you-think <p><span>Our days are dominated by screens: the morning news, ads on the metro, work documents at the office, the dozens of texts we send a day, and to top it off, a good TV show in the evening. But for a lot of people, novels are best enjoyed on paper. And that’s even after the invention of electronic book readers (e-readers like Kobo’s or Amazon’s Kindle), which can hold all the books in the world in a single lightweight device.</span></p> Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:53:23 +0000 Cassandra Lee, OSS Intern 6921 at /oss /oss/article/reviews/top-articles-2017-chosen-you <p><span>From <a href="/oss/article/technology-health-and-nutrition/what-vitro-meat">petri-dish hamburgers</a> to <a href="/oss/article/did-you-know-history/corn-flakes-were-created-stop-masturbation">anti-masturbation corn flakes</a>, 2017 has been an interesting year at the OSS. Going through our website, and selecting our favourite and craziest science stories was no easy task.</span></p> Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:13:24 +0000 OSS 6842 at /oss /oss/article/general-science-health-and-nutrition/you-know-dna-meet-even-more-interesting-molecule <p>I remember being introduced to RNA as a disposable DNA copy with a very short life, a sort of mayfly of the molecular world.</p> <p>RNA was how you got from DNA to protein. It was like a set of instructions printed on the most brittle of papers. It might as well have been the medium through which the <em>Mission: Impossible</em> team got their assignment before it self-destructed. In one word, it was uninteresting.</p> <p>We’re all familiar with DNA. It encodes the machinery that creates living beings. But RNA, its oft-dismissed offspring, is much more fascinating.</p> Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:44:24 +0000 Jonathan Jarry, MSc 6853 at /oss /oss/article/health-and-nutrition/you-think-what-you-eat <p>When we think of the human mind we tend to picture the wrinkly pink organ which resides in our skull: it’s intricate cavities responsible for bringing about all the amazing things that we can think and do. But it turns out another organ is also involved in constructing our mental existence, however this one we tend to just associate with a toilet. The gut, or gastrointestinal tract, is the long digestive tube which runs from mouth to anus, and just might be the most underrated body organ.</p> Wed, 01 Nov 2017 21:53:31 +0000 Cassandra Lee, OSS Intern 6806 at /oss /oss/article/infographics-general-science/science-behind-worlds-most-popular-drug <p>Last year I worked at a coffee shop on Ŕ¦°óSMÉçÇř campus. If you ever want to feel appreciated at work, try putting on the first pot of coffee for a bunch of sleep deprived college students and professors. Grateful does not even begin to describe it. Everywhere you go people love their coffee – 90% of North American adults consume some form of caffeine daily, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug of all time. So what's the science behind this funny little molecule?</p> Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:24:06 +0000 Cassandra Lee, OSS Intern 2629 at /oss /oss/article/technology/hope-new-life-it-actually-possible-we-can-colonize-mars <p>Last month during a Norwegian science festival, Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist and author of <em>A Brief History of Time</em> said this about space travel: “It is clear we are entering a new space age. We are standing at the threshold of a new era. Human colonisation and other planets is no longer science fiction, it can be science fact”. He believes that threats to the planet including climate change and over-population are great enough that humans must explore new options. Given Hawking’s great credibility, his opinion merits serious consideration.</p> Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:50:17 +0000 Cassandra Lee, OSS Intern 2570 at /oss