Health and Science

Proposed Bill May Shift More Power Away From Pharmaceutical Companies

Posted on April 22, 2022April 21, 2022 by Paityn Tabor

By Annie Ahern ’23 Health & Science Editor ahernam@lfc.edu As of 2022, diabetes (type one and two) affects more than 415 million people world-wide. Despite diabetes being such a common, treatable issue, the availability of its major management tool insulin continues to be an issue. The process for synthesizing insulin was invented by Frederick Banting, James Collip, and Charles Best in 1923. Unwilling to use their world-altering invention for their own profit, the group willingly…

Webb Telescope Could Grant Mankind the Time Travel Capabilities We Have Been Waiting For

Posted on February 25, 2022February 24, 2022 by Paityn Tabor

By Annie Ahern ’23 Health & Science Editor ahernam@lfc.edu The James Webb Space Telescope has recently made its way to the destination teams of scientists and engineers worked for years to send it to. With 18 hexagonal mirrors covered in a thin layer of gold, the $10 billion project is in place orbiting L2, a Lagrange point 1.5 million km from earth. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the Lagrange point is a gravitationally…