Author: Praise Ochu

During midterm season, university students have a common habit of staying awake all night in hopes of retaining more information for an important test. The belief is that the more time spent studying, the more information is retained; therefore, the better performance on an evaluation (Hershner and Chervin 2014). Most students understand that repeated sleep…

The origins of life on Earth are a highly debated topic among experts in the field. The prevailing hypothesis is abiogenesis, a chemical process in which the building blocks of life – nucleotides, carbohydrates, fatty acids, and amino acids – were made from abiotic material (Pross and Pascal 2013). These basic elements then went on…