Wanna Save the World? Don’t Wash Your Jeans
People worldwide are “going green”. But for everyday teenagers, finding a way to help preserve the environment can be very difficult. One easy way to help the save the world is by not washing your favorite pair of old blue jeans. This discovery caused many hygienic individuals some alarm; could that possibly be sanitary? According...
The Perfect Patient: Billy the Dummy
The Perfect Patient: Billy the Dummy from SciJourner on Vimeo. What do you do with medical students who aren't ready to work on real people, but need experience in a hospital setting? Meet Billy the Dummy, the perfect "patient" for budding doctors. SciJourner reporters Gabrielle Gant and Damonte Johnson get up close and personal with...
When Good Makeup Goes Bad
“I had no clue that makeup went bad,” says Lindsey, a student at Washington High School. “I’ve had some makeup for years.” Not everyone knows how long you are supposed to keep makeup before it needs to be thrown out. Some don’t even know you’re supposed to throw out makeup. And, although many teenage girls...
What is Brain Freeze?
What is Brain Freeze? from SciJourner on Vimeo. You are enjoying that nice cold drink when suddenly your brain screams OUCH. What is brain freeze and does it really affect your brain? SciJourner reporter Alex Walters investigates. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Glaucoma
“I can’t really do everything that my friends can,” my sister Diana tells SciJourner. Diana states that the font in her school’s textbooks is different from her classmates. When she reads, she must have the reading material not even a nose length away. Diana is only 9 years old and the doctors of Children’s Hospital in St. Louis...
Inside a Tornado
Inside the Omnimax Theater at the St. Louis Science Center, the sounds of storms and wind blow through the crowd. Tornado Alley, now playing at the Omnimax Theater, follows the actions of VORTEX 2. and storm chaser and film-maker Sean Casey. VORTEX 2 is an ambitious effort to gather information on the way that tornadoes...
Open Fetal Surgery Gives New Hope for Children with Spina Bifida
Open fetal surgery—a radical, new approach to treat the most severe form of spina bifida—has proven to be a successful treatment for this dangerous condition, according to a clinical study published in the March, 2011, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The open fetal surgery corrected a type of spina bifida called myelomeningocele, the most common form...
Infographic: A Survey of Pregnant Teens
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Human’s Best Friend? The Plight of Stray Dogs on St. Louis City Streets
The streets of Moscow, Russia are overrun with stray dogs—some have even learned to ride the subway to get from place to place. Andrei Poyarkov, a biologist at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution in Moscow, who has observed the strays for 30 years, told the Financial Times that in 2010 there were approximately 84 stray...
What Can You Learn from Dead Bodies?
SciJourn found the answers to the question, What Can You Learn from Dead Bodies, at Body Worlds and the Brain, a new exhibit at the Saint Louis Science Center. Body Worlds and the Brain shows various body structures and the development of the human body and brain. The bodies were donated from people who have legally...