Annette Choi
Berkeleyside
Berkeley, CA, United States
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Past articles by Annette:
Where there’s smoke there’s students: Berkeley teens addicted to e-cigarettes
Berkeley High's dean of students reckons 'up to a quarter' of the school's students has used an e-cigarette in the last year. → Read More
There’s 'a heck of a lot of turkeys' in Berkeley —
Wild turkeys are a staple of the city, as common as bikers and street vendors. But this year seems to have brought a particularly high number of the giant birds to town. → Read More
Newly Discovered Frog's Slime Could End Flu Season For Good — NOVA Next
A compound found in the gooey skin of an Indian frog targets and literally blows up flu virus cells. → Read More
Solar-Powered Cube Can Extract Moisture From Desert Air — NOVA Next
A water harvester that pulls water straight from the atmosphere could provide people with much needed fresh water. → Read More
Biofuel CCS Plant Inches Us Closer to Negative Carbon Emissions — NOVA Next
A new Illinois corn-processing facility could bring us one step closer to removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. → Read More
Asteroid-Grabbing Spacecraft More “Realistic Than Perceived” — NOVA Next
Asteroid mining could be the next multi-billion dollar idea, according to analysts. → Read More
AI Translation Could Speed Rare Language Research—and Save Lives — NOVA Next
Google’s latest machine translation technology has the potential to simplify international communication by directly translating speech into text. → Read More
Female Menstruation Cycle Replicated in Organ-On-A-Chip — NOVA Next
This artificial reproductive system offers invaluable insight into female physiology, and it fits in the palm of your hand. → Read More
Drug to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Passes Critical Test in Mice — NOVA Next
Researchers have developed a new daily pill that manages diabetes symptoms without insulin or dietary changes. → Read More
LHC Discovers Five New Particles at the Same Time — NOVA Next
Physicists hope that high-energy forms of the Omega-c baryon will help us understand why matter sticks together. → Read More
Remnants of Earth’s Original Crust Found in Canada — NOVA Next
Geologists have uncovered pieces of Earth’s 4.2 billion-year-old original crust. → Read More
New Malaria Vaccine 100% Effective, But May Be Difficult to Scale — NOVA Next
New vaccination technique protects for at least ten weeks, but requires a more involved injection method. → Read More
What’s the Deal with Toast and Cancer? — NOVA Next
A public health campaign in the UK is discouraging people from eating burnt toast. Just how harmful is it? → Read More