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What is the Lab-Grown Meat Industry?

What is the Lab-Grown Meat Industry?

Elyse Weaver, Staff Writer June 2, 2023

Vegetarianism and veganism have been on the rise for decades, drawing people in for both health and ethical reasons. As the global percentage of nonmeat-eaters has risen, the demand for meat substitutes...

PHOTOGRAPH BY VISUALS UNLIMITED, INC., ROBERT PICKETT, GETTY IMAGES

Sleeping Glass Frogs

Jinling Wang January 23, 2023

PHOTOGRAPH BY VISUALS UNLIMITED, INC., ROBERT PICKETT, GETTY IMAGES As round opaque water crystals collect on dark green leaves, the croaks of hundreds of glass frogs echo in the rainforest. Sitting...

Microplastics Found In Human Blood

Microplastics Found In Human Blood

Jinling Wang June 2, 2022

Remember that Amazon package you opened last Friday or the Starbucks cup you tossed out at lunch? Yeah, those. Did you know that they are full of microplastics? Well, not yet.  While both are made out...

Students gather together and cut the ribbon, unveiling the new science center.

A New Start for STEM

Hanna Masri and Madeleine Nicks January 5, 2022

Stem is here to stay on campus. This September, Laguna finally unveiled its brand new Center for Science and Innovation, a collection of spaces dedicated to STEM fields, including biology, chemistry, and...

Murky Materials

Murky Materials

Jackson Baltes and Claire Tolles November 17, 2021

It’s no secret that the fashion industry is no stranger to controversies. Household brand names such as H&M, Urban Outfitters, and Forever 21 have been accused of designing cheap and trendy clothing...

Laguna Students to Present at Showcase of Innovative Learning

Laguna Students to Present at Showcase of Innovative Learning

May 12, 2017

Congratulations and best of luck to Laguna’s Project Based Computing class who was selected to present their idea of using an iPhone to control a quadcopter via bluetooth at this year’s SB County Education...

STEM Expansion Plans Announced

April 8, 2014

Returning to campus for the first time in what feels like a lifetime, a new building catches your eye. It looks familiar, but you can tell from the façade that the electricity of something new is buzzing...

A Second Home in Deep Space

January 10, 2014

Recent calculations done by astronomers using NASA data have revealed that the Milky Way contains about 8.8 billion planets the same size as Earth. What’s more, these planets orbit their parent stars...

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