By Melvin Najarian December 10, 2025 On Nov. 4, Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race, an election that drew the highest voter turnout in the city since 1969. After years of decline in civic participation, New Yorkers voted in unexpectedly large numbers, with more than two million people casting ballots. According to the New York Times, that is about 42% of the total registered voters.  Mamdani, a democratic socialist, defeated Republican candidate C

By Srihita Madiraju. December 10, 2025 Imagine a book being pulled from an ordinary-looking bookshelf in a suburban home—only for the entire bookshelf to swing open like a door into an unknown world. Behind it lies a cozy nook bathed in warm, inviting light and meticulously furnished. While the magical experience seems straight out of a fantasy novel, it is an increasingly common concept in architecture today: a secret room.   Secret rooms are deliberately con

By James Yu As the warm autumn leaves wither away with the start of winter, several of the school’s fall sports have successfully topped off the end of their seasons at the Central Coast Section (CCS) championships.  Even before they hit the green for CCS, the school’s girls’ golf team was on fire. After finishing the regular season with a flawless 8-0 record, the team dominated the league at Blossom Valley Athletic League (BVAL) Championships. Hitting the ball running at CCS

By Dylan Xie December 10, 2025 The gun goes off. Runners explode out of the blocks for the 100 meter dash, their legs churning as they push into the ground. The crowd roars, but this is not the Olympics. It is the Enhanced Games: a sporting competition where athletes are openly permitted to use performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in an attempt to break world records and push the limits of the human body.  This idea was conceived in 2023 by Australian businessma

By Lauren Law December 10, 2025 In Alaska, where homes battle the brutal cold with layers of imported Styrofoam, scientists are turning to mycelium, the living root network of mushrooms, to create a biodegradable and locally sourced insulation alternative that has been in development for nearly a decade. In Alaska, where homes battle brutal cold with layers of imported Styrofoam, scientists are turning to mycelium, a living root network of mushrooms, to create

By Teresa Sun December 10, 2025 The academic environment is rapidly shifting as Artificial Intelligence (AI) moves from a theoretical concept to a powerful tool accessible to every student. While AI-driven systems have been evolving for decades, the current generation of Large Language Models has made personalized, on-demand academic assistance instantly accessible, enabling students to study smarter and more effectively, or perhaps for misuse. However, this rap