Syed Masood – The Pipettepen

Blog / Time for Exploration: Ignition of the Space Race

October 4, 2023October 17, 2023 / Syed Masood /

History about how the space race started, and the implications of the soviets being the first to get a satellite into space.

Blog / Fusion: The Holy Grail of Science

July 26, 2023 / Syed Masood /

Looking behind the scenes of the recent breakthrough in nuclear fusion.

Blog / AI Art: An Art or Artist’s Revolution

March 23, 2023March 29, 2023 / Syed Masood /

The Development, Implications, and Ethics of AI Art

Blog / Deep Sea Invisibility

October 3, 2022 / Syed Masood /

Looking into the mechanism and the evolutionary benefits of deep-sea fish evolving ultra-black skin

Blog / Building High on Shaking Grounds

July 14, 2022 / Syed Masood /

Reflecting the impacts and devastation imposed by earthquakes, and understanding techniques to build earthquake resistant structures.

Blog / A Machine’s Revenge

March 24, 2022 / Syed Masood /

A critical moment in the development of artificial intelligence: how a computer program was able to defeat the World Chess Champion in 1997.

Blog / New Age Space Race

October 18, 2021 / Syed Masood /

With the rise of space privatization comes an environmental cost that could eventually halt space exploration in its tracks.

Blog / The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

August 12, 2021 / Syed Masood /

How does plastic end up in the ocean, and what is the negative impact on ocean ecology and marine life?

Blog / Why be “Mad as a Hatter??”

April 13, 2021 / Syed Masood /

Once thought to be the elixir of life found in tombs of Egyptian pharaohs and Chinese Emperors, Quicksilver, also known as the element mercury, is in fact quite the opposite.…

Blog / To Fish or not to Fish??

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 / Syed Masood / 1

Bringing attention to the issue of overfishing, specifically the determent of sharking finning.

Blog / The Chemistry of Art Restoration

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 / Syed Masood / 2

Examining the hidden chemistry of art restorations

Blog / Master of Games: John Conway

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 / Syed Masood / 2

Honoring the life of Dr. John Horton Conway who passed away due do COVID-19 this April.

Blog / Global Pandemic 1918 Edition

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 / Syed Masood / 2

I would like to show the comparison of the recent outbreaks of the coronavirus so the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918. I want the reader to see the need of public health policy and the potential outcomes when its not implemented properly

Blog / Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown

October 7, 2019October 14, 2019 / Syed Masood /

The impact of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown tested national radiation safety again after Chernobyl.

Blog / 30 Years Post Nuclear Meltdown

July 18, 2019July 25, 2019 / Syed Masood /

Pressure increasing, emergency sirens ringing, water in the cooling tanks superheating. 9:27:40 AM UTC April 26, 1986: a planned safety test was conducted to assess the cooling circulation system in…

Blog / Nobel in Chemistry for an Evolutionary Revolution

November 13, 2018November 24, 2018 / Syed Masood /

Evolution, the process of gradual changes to genetic information in each generation over millions of years, proposed by Charles Darwin in the 19th century is being revolutionized by modern science.…