By Max Garsten; Chapter Head ; Choate Rosemary Hall, CT When the James Webb Space Telescope began peering into the distant universe, astronomers expected to see the first faint galaxies and stars. But surprisingly, the astronomers also found tiny red dots that don't match any known celestial object. Researchers have been calling them little red dots (LRDs), or informally “rubies” (Nature, Ahart, 2025). These objects, seen with light from a universe less than two billion years

By Diya Poluru; Tech Associate; The Lawrenceville School, NJ Picture this: a disc of yttrium barium copper oxide, a superconductor, discovered in liquid nitrogen boiling into gas at room temperature, hovering above a track of magnets. No strings attached, nothing holding the disc up except pure science. You wave your hand beneath it, above it, but it stays put. You even tilt it at an angle, and it remains there, suspended in the air. Give the disc a quick push with your fin

By Ananya Chopra, The Lawrenceville School, NJ As the most powerful launch vehicle ever built, Starship represents a vision for a reusable and scalable space transport system that will transform the spaceflight industry. Its design for full reusability, massive payloads, and deep-space missions has the potential to transform the future of human space exploration, satellite logistics, and commercial access to orbit. Unlike traditional rockets, which discard the upper stages a

By Joshua Wang, The Lawrenceville School For nine years after the last flight of the space shuttle on July 21, 2011, NASA depended on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to send astronauts and scientists to the International Space Station (ISS). In 2014, as an effort to promote cost-effectiveness, competition, and independence from foreign space organizations, NASA awarded US companies Boeing and its competitor, SpaceX, with contracts to develop new systems for ISS transportation. T