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Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

Pro-Con: Analyzing the Apple password bypass debate

Pro-Con: Analyzing the Apple password bypass debate

by Alex Wang and Derek Yen February 28, 2016

After the San Bernardino shooting in December of last year, the government retrieved one of the shooters’ phones, an Apple iPhone 5C, and demanded that Apple create an encryption key to unlock the phone....

Sophomore Rajiv Movva and junior Arjun Subramaniam attend Science Bowl practice as members of the A team. The regional competition of the Science Bowl will take place Saturday, Feb. 6.

Science Bowl teams prepare for upcoming competition

by Devanshi Mehta, Reporter February 3, 2016

The Upper school Science Bowl teams are currently preparing for their regional competition, which will take place on Saturday, Feb. 6. Last year, the Harker Upper School team won second place at the...

Scientists discover new elements

Scientists discover new elements

by Nicole Chen and Derek Yen January 31, 2016

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) confirmed of the discovery of four new elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 on Dec 30. These new discoveries are “artificial...

Twitter considers changing to longer character limit

Twitter considers changing to longer character limit

by Stanley Zhao and Katherine Zhang January 31, 2016

Originally a social networking service focused on sending 140 character “tweets,” Twitter is considering revising its character limit to allow for up to 10,000 letters. The model is designed so...

Global reset: facing our future

Global reset: facing our future

by Sahana Srinivasan, Asst. STEM Editor January 31, 2016

2015 was the hottest year and Dec. 2015 the hottest month ever recorded, breaking the previous high temperature records set in 2014, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Climatologists...

SKIN CELLS Neelesh Ramachandran  (10) and Ashwin Rammochan (9) look at a synthetic skin sample.

Pushing the envelope of research

by Vineet Kosaraju, Maya Kumar, and Rose Guan January 29, 2016

As seniors Alice Wu and Elina Sendonaris enter the room, they turn off the lights, preparing to check the results of their experiment. Once the room is dark, they flick the switch on a red laser and see...

USAYPT

by Vineet Kosaraju January 29, 2016

The United States Association for Young Physicists Tournament (USAYPT) is an international contest consisting of four problems that are discussed in a debate style known as “physics fights.” This...

Intel STS

Intel STS

by Maya Kumar January 29, 2016

Senior Johnathan Ma was named one of 40 finalists in the country in the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) on Jan. 20. Along with Vineet Kosaraju (12), Sophia Luo (12), and Sadhika Malladi (12),...

Synopsys Championship

by Rose Guan January 29, 2016

The Synopsys Science & Technology Championship is a science fair held in the Santa Clara County region in March every year, to which upper school and middle school students can submit research...

Juniors David Zhu and Evani Radiya-Dixit were named reigonal finalists in the 2015 Siemens Competition. 11 other students were named semifinalists.

Siemens Competition

by Vineet Kosaraju January 29, 2016

The Siemens Foundation announced 11 semifinalists from Harker for the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology last October, of which two later placed fifth as national finalists in Washington...

Meet the researchers

January 29, 2016

I developed a novel framework integrating machine learning, pathway analysis, and significance analysis, to more accurately predict the response of cancer cell lines to treatment. Jonathan Ma (12),...

In brief: Scientists have potentially discovered a ninth planet

by Derek Yen, Reporter January 26, 2016

Two researchers at Caltech announced evidence for the existence of a ninth planet beyond the orbit of Neptune in the Astronomical Journal’s January edition. The researchers Konstantin Batygin and...

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