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Western democracies are losing the technology competition and U.S. leadership is being challenged scientifically on the global stage, warns an editorial in Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The article, shared by Honolulu ARCS Scholar alumna and ScienceAdvisor newsletter editor Christie Wilson, cites Australian...

ARCS Metro Washington Scholar Sheila Iyer has always been fascinated with puzzles since she was a child, and to her, studying DNA is like piecing together a complicated puzzle with great ramifications for public health. She engages in research as a way to creatively unpack the hidden secrets of the human...

The world needs to reach net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050 for the global temperature to stop increasing. According to the World Resources Institute, the UN found that current climate policies will raise the temperature by 2.8 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. However, Northern California...

Naseeha (Nas) Cardwell plans to defend her PhD thesis in Chemical Engineering at Washington State University this fall. She is the first woman in her family to be college-educated, and the first to earn a PhD. She says every opportunity along her STEM path made a difference.

As a Seattle Chapter...