Emily Kwong

3 weeks ago | share.google | Emily Kwong |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez

Teal is a greenish, blueish hue. But what if it were more? Imagine a vibrant teal that's more saturated than any color you've ever seen in the natural world. That's how a rare few people describe a new color called "olo." The shade has been seen only by a handful of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley in a paper published in the journal Science Advances last month. The view is so exclusive because olo does not exist in nature. It cannot be found among paint cans.

3 weeks ago | wrvo.org | Hannah Chinn |Emily Kwong |Kimberly McCoy

Most undergrads don't get the chance to work with museum-preserved specimens of deep sea anglerfish. Then again, Rose Faucher isn't most undergrads. "The fish world is actually pretty small, and it feels kind of like everybody knows everybody," says Faucher, who graduated from Rice University recently with her bachelor's degree in cell biology and genetics. "They'll FedEx you a fish that has been sitting in a jar since like 1965 ...

3 weeks ago | wrvo.org | Kimberly McCoy |Emily Kwong |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez

As artificial intelligence seeps into various areas of our society, it's rushing into others. One area it's making a big difference is protein science. We're talking the molecules that make our cells work. AI has hurtled the field forward by predicting what these molecular machines look like, which tells scientists how they do what they do — from processing our food to turning light into sugar.

1 month ago | wrvo.org | Emily Kwong |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez

Around 40 million people around the world have bipolar disorder, which involves cyclical swings between moods: from depression to mania. Kay Redfield Jamison is one of those people. She's also a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has written extensively about the topic, from medical textbooks to personal memoirs. In fact, Jamison penned one of the first memoirs ever written by a medical doctor living with bipolar,An Unquiet Mind.

1 month ago | npr.org | Emily Kwong

Around 40 million people around the world have bipolar disorder, which involves cyclical swings between moods: from depression to mania. Kay Redfield Jamison is one of those people. She's also a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has written extensively about the topic, from medical textbooks to personal memoirs. In fact, Jamison penned one of the first memoirs ever written by a medical doctor living with bipolar,An Unquiet Mind.