by Emma Chuo “Some of us can say ‘ bonjour ’, some of us can say ‘ guten morgen ’, and so on. But I can say: [mimicking the cries of chimpanzees]. That’s ‘good morning’ in chimpanzee!” (Jane Goodall Canada 2025, 0:00) Born in 1934, Dr. Jane Goodall was a British life scientist who specialized in primatology and anthropology (Fieldhouse 2025). As a young girl, she was captivated with her collection of the   Dr. Dolittle   books and the beauty of African wildlife as portrayed in   Tarzan . And—she was equally smitten by Tarzan. “I read   Tarzan of the Apes   and fell in love with him, and I was very jealous he married the wrong Jane!” (Kelly Clarkson Show 2023, 1:15) Though she had always harbored a deep love of nature, reading about the rich biodiversity of Africa was the moment she decided: one day, she was to go to Africa and live with the apes (Appleton 2022). Today, Goodall’s famed globally for her numerous groundbreaking revolutions regarding evolutio...

By Marisa De La Villa Before Andrei Sakharov became one of the Soviet Union’s most outspoken dissidents, he was celebrated as one of its greatest scientific minds. 1  In the early stages of the Cold War, he was devoted to the department of thermonuclear weapons, convinced that contributing to national defense was both a necessity and something quite patriotic . 2  Working within the research centers of the Soviet nuclear program, Sakharov helped shape the theories that made the USSR’s hydrogen bomb possible. This included working on the designs that would lead to the most terrifying weapon ever tested: the Tsar Bomba. 3 The Tsar Bomba was devised through what physicists described as a “layer cake” design, stacking fission and fusion stages in carefully arranged layers that amplified the explosion step by step. Like a tiered cake, each layer was dependent on the one beneath it, creating a cascading reaction that pushed the weapon’s destructive power to an unprecedented scale. 4...