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The Monarch

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The Monarch

The Student News Site of Archbishop Mitty High School

The Monarch

Scott Strazzante, For the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Will Fog Stay Misty?

Maxim Nekrestyanov October 14, 2024

What is fog? It is one of the most elusive, unpredictable, and under appreciated parts of weather.  In a nutshell, ocean/coastal fog is formed when moist and warm air moves over colder waters, causing...

Glaze and Nightshade: Warriors against AI Art Theft

Glaze and Nightshade: Warriors against AI Art Theft

Hannah Ying and Emma Shim October 14, 2024
Six fingers a hand, disappearing limbs, and cartoonishly disproportionate figures. The initial stages of AI art were rough, to say the least.
Crafting Life: The Potential and Perils of Synthetic Biology

Crafting Life: The Potential and Perils of Synthetic Biology

Suhrith Kaushik and Ethan Liu October 14, 2024
The human species has always craved exploration. We dream of moving into space and colonizing Mars and greeting Aliens…but what if instead of finding the aliens, we make them?
How RNA Sequencing Could Get Me My First Happy Meal

How RNA Sequencing Could Get Me My First Happy Meal

Ruth Li, Staff Writer October 10, 2024
Scientists have discovered a new way to investigate the human genome, a crucial step in understanding and determining a cure for genetic diseases like celiac disease.
Silver Nanoparticles: Finding the Long-Awaited Cure for HIV

Silver Nanoparticles: Finding the Long-Awaited Cure for HIV

Samiha Das and Avanti Yardi October 10, 2024
The cure to HIV may be found sooner rather than later. The answer lies within the nanoscale in silver nanoparticles.
Using Magnets to Launch Rockets

Using Magnets to Launch Rockets

Suhrith Kaushik, Vishnu Athreya, Ruth Li, and Mihir Rao April 28, 2024

The iridescent red glow from a loading deck wakes you from your slumber. You hear the gentle hum of a levitating suitcase beside you, bustling crowds eager to board the next spaceship off the Moon colony....

Guardians of the Cyber Realm: The Superpowers of IDS and IPS

Guardians of the Cyber Realm: The Superpowers of IDS and IPS

Nitya Pisolkar April 28, 2024

When you fill out your personal information into a website, do you have a moment of reluctance? An unsettling sense of vulnerability prompted by the countless headlines about cyber attacks and data breaches?...

The Waves of Our Universe

Eesha Iyer, Staff Writer April 27, 2024
Wherever we are, whatever we do, we are generating and feeling gravitational waves. These mysterious footprints in our universe's evolution are a key insight into how our universe came to be and where it's going. Recently, we've improved our methods for detecting gravity waves.
Crop circles like these are often sourced by groundwater as a workaround in areas without rivers and lakes.

The Groundwater Crisis: Crucial, Volatile, and Overlooked

Jonathan Chen, Staff Writer April 27, 2024
Our aquifers are drying up due to our unsustainable usage of their groundwater, and the consequences are astronomical.
Are Self Driving Cars Here?

Are Self Driving Cars Here?

Kaitlyn Altmar and Isabella Shen April 25, 2024
From Waymo to Tesla: the advancement of autonomous vehicles has the potential to change how people approaches driving. Yet with safety, technological, and societal concerns, how will we navigate this new future?
Got Issues? Quantum Computing Will Solve Em'!

Got Issues? Quantum Computing Will Solve Em’!

Akhila Hiremath and Anika Bhutani April 25, 2024
From cybersecurity to physics, quantum computing has the potential to solve some of humanity's greatest problems. It is growing so fast that even Mitty student, Adelina Chau, recently used it to introduce a novel method for drug discovery. With all this progress, what's next?

The Software That Launched Humanity to the Future

Anthony Edmonds and Gaurav Bansal February 26, 2024
Behind Apollo 11's "one small step for man [and] one giant leap for mankind" lies a code humanity will not soon forget.
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