YOUNG SCIENTISTS Welcome!
Editor Newsletter
October 2014
Welcome to the first ever, monthly issue of the YSJ Editor Newsletter. The Young Scientists Journal is a worldwide journal open to anyone aged between 12 and 20 to contribute, either through editing or contributing by blogging or submitting your research. Hopefully, this newsletter gives you an insight into what The Young Scientists Journal is and hopefully encourages you to sign up!
Our Monthly Challenge
Meet Lauren Smith who hopes to study chemistry and drug design at university to go on and fight cancer.
The Young Scientists Journal wants you to get involved. To do this, we have decided to start a new initiative called ‘A Topic A Month’. This means that every month we will announce a new topic, this may be related to a recent news topic, a certain time of year or just a single scientific word. Your task will be to create any sort of media from a poster to a video, a poem or a short piece of writing. Be creative! All of your creations must be submitted by email to editior@ysjournal.com including your name and age, with the subject ‘Topic a month(month)’. All submissions will be judged by the Editorial Team and the best will be displayed on the website. This will be starting from October, we look forward to seeing your work. The topic for this month is…
TROPICAL DISEASES
Whether this is Ebola or any other tropical disease, the choice is yours! If you’re selected, your entry will also appear right here in our Newsletter. Make sure you submit your entry before the 31st October!
This Month in Science... Meet Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin, who is a sixth form student at Chethams’ School of Music in Manchester, UK, with a keen interest in all things biological. She hopes to have a future in medical or evolutionary research and science journalism. • • • • • • • • • •
Scientists captured the sound of an atom for the first time. The ozone layer is showing signs of recovery. Engineers created solid light. A woman received a tissue graft made from induced stem cells Scientists developed a quick and easy method to produce white blood cells from skin cells. Scientists discovered how to “switch off” auto immunity. Scientists genetically engineered bacteria to produce a new type of renewable bio-fuel. Quantum entanglement was used to photograph an invisible object. Scientists created an entire lab-engineered organ, a thymus, from scratch Researchers discovered proteins that block the release of both HIV and Ebola virus toxins.