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This week’s Billboard Hot 100, a collection of the most streamed singles, featured multiple duets, including Timeless, Die with a Smile and Luther.

Billboard Breakdown: Duets add layers to songs

by Suhani Gupta, A&E/Lifestyle Editor March 1, 2025

This week’s Billboard Hot 100, a collection of the most streamed singles, featured multiple duets both poorly and well-crafted. Three of the most popular duet tracks, Timeless, Die with a Smile and Luther,...

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Culture Week Day 3: Booths and Mosaic of Culture

by Lily Peng, Chelsea Xie, Heather Wang, and Cynthia Xie March 1, 2025

Students and staff sampled cultural food from 20 different booths set up in the Aux Gym and learned about different cultures during the Mosaic of Cultures assembly on Wednesday. Take a look at how students...

Ashish Mathur explains research showing how heart disease is more prevalent among South Asians at younger ages and at lower body mass indices. He is the co-founder and executive director of the South Asian Heart Center at the El Camino Hospital.

Heart disease expert provides health management tips

by Jonathan Szeto and Charlie Wang February 26, 2025

South Asian Heart Center co-founder and executive director Ashish Mathur spoke about methods to improve wellbeing, diabetes and heart attacks at a speaker event hosted in collaboration with Public Health...

Culture Week Day 1: Sidewalk chalk

Culture Week Day 1: Sidewalk chalk

by Lily Shi, News Editor February 24, 2025

Culture Week kicked off with a sidewalk chalk activity on Monday in the Orchard. Take a look at how students expressed their identities through art, and stay tuned for more Culture Week coverage. Lily...

Music Monday: Study the baselines of hip-hop sampling with J Dilla and Aquila

Music Monday: Study the baselines of hip-hop sampling with J Dilla and Aquila

by Wenjie Zou and Samuel Tong February 24, 2025

Music Monday features a different category of songs on a weekly basis. Each Monday, Harker Aquila will release seven songs, one song for each day of the week. Hip-hop artist J Dilla revolutionized hip-hop...

Humans of Harker: Leading with every lesson

Humans of Harker: Leading with every lesson

by Emma Milner, Aquila Editor-in-Chief February 24, 2025

View the full transcript here: Emily Mitnick (12): In middle school, I was at a different school, and we had a snack cart that I was in charge of running and we were selling snacks to students during...

Music Monday: Relive the remnants of romance with Aquila

Music Monday: Relive the remnants of romance with Aquila

by Lily Peng, Assistant News Editor February 18, 2025

Music Monday features a different category of songs on a weekly basis. Each Monday, Harker Aquila will release seven songs, one song for each day of the week. Love may not be as perfect as it seems,...

STEM Simplified Episode 1: Bird flu outbreak intensifies nationwide

STEM Simplified Episode 1: Bird flu outbreak intensifies nationwide

by Ashley Mo and Jonathan Szeto February 16, 2025

This is the first installment of STEM Simplified, a video series in which Aquila staff members break down current STEM events and discoveries. In this episode, STEM Editors Ashley Mo and Jonathan Szeto...

Juniors Justin Yang, Eric Dong and Katherine Wang put the final touches on their stilted house in the design-build part of the competition. Teams competed to construct the tallest and most wind-resilient model homes using common materials like straws and paper.

Engineering contest challenges students in weather-resistant building design

by Mihir Kotbagi and Jonathan Szeto February 13, 2025

Twenty-eight students competed in Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Math and Science (TEAMS) by completing a multiple-choice exam and design-build challenge on Friday. Following this year’s theme of...

Sophomores Jessica Chen and Brianna Madrigal follow a dance on GoNoodle. This activity ended this pajama-themed Eagle Buddies visit.

Sophomores visit Eagle Buddies for pajama-themed event

by Lily Peng and Chelsea Xie February 11, 2025

Sophomores and third-grade Eagle Buddies gathered in pajamas to listen to a story at the lower school campus on Jan. 4.  Upper School Division Head Paul Barsky sat in a rocking chair and read aloud...

Groove to GRAMMYs’ greatest with Aquila

Groove to GRAMMYs’ greatest with Aquila

by Tiffany Zhu, Sports Editor February 10, 2025

Music Monday features a different category of songs on a weekly basis. Each Monday, Harker Aquila will release seven songs, one song for each day of the week. At Music’s Biggest Night, the Recording...

Sophomores Stellan Lindh and Vera Sorotokin taste strawberries after eating miracle berries. The fruits turn acidity in foods into sweetness by binding to sweet receptors in the mouth.

Club Corner: Cooking Club turns sour into sweet with miracle berries

by Jonathan Szeto and Charlie Wang February 8, 2025

Cooking Club members sampled miracle berries on Friday in English teacher Christopher Hurshman’s room.  The small, red fruits native to West Africa cause acidity to taste sweet for five to 10 minutes....

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