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Alix Barry poses for an underwater photo while diving in Belize, where she spent a summer working for the Belize Conservatory. Photo by Jessie Kaull and art by Estelle Martin
FANTASTIC BEASTS: Sometimes considered among the ugliest animals on the planet, the elephant seals are named after the male bull’s large proboscis, which resembles the trunk of an elephant. Male elephant seals fight and produce mating calls through their proboscises until one is too tired and surrenders. As a result of these fights, they bear scars across their chest that remain for their whole life even after their skin sheds.
Who Else is Out There?
Student Researchers
Calvin Yan May 22, 2019

Generative machine learning Franklin Wang, Class of 2022, has spent the past couple years exploring generative machine learning models, which attempt to generate their...

 Among the places future chemistry teacher Michael Mishali traveled the past two years is Timna Park in Southern Israel. “I’ve been to lots of wonderful places but my top spots aren’t really determined by the place so much as the people,” wrote Mishali. Photo by Eliza Uster, Mishali’s friend and travel companion
Faculty Updates
May 22, 2019
Super Blood Wolf Moon
Super Blood Wolf Moon
February 27, 2019
Student Researcher
Student Researcher
February 27, 2019
Brain Block
Brain Block
Antonia Zhou February 27, 2019

The document in which I typed this article sat empty in my drive for two months. By Week 3 it was renamed to a less official sounding jumble of random...

Art by Maya Anderson, Photo by Nicole Adamson
Garbage Bin or Garden
November 28, 2018
Who Else is Out There?
Who Else is Out There?
October 12, 2018
Science, bro
Science, bro
October 12, 2018
Prosthetic Progress
Estelle Martin, Senior Staff Writer • May 22, 2019

The Prosthetics Lab at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital is a stark contrast to the surrounding building. Outside the doors of the lab, ordinary, sterile waiting rooms...

Crossing the Line
May 22, 2019
Fine Prints
Fine Prints
May 22, 2019
Gallery for May 2019
Nicole Adamson May 22, 2019

Every issue, Veritas aims to capture the beauty of science in images of the seemingly mundane. Here's our gallery for the May 2019 issue.

Bluffs are an iconic feature of the Northern California coastline. Formed by years of erosion by wind and waves, rocky cliffs are gradually worn away. If the base of a cliff erodes below a house perched at the top, the results can be devastating. Photo by Sabrina Martin in Mendocino State Park, California
Gallery for February 2019
February 27, 2019
California newts have multiple defenses against predators. Their skin secretes a neurotoxin and they can regenerate limbs and organs. Like frogs, their life begins as a tadpole before they mature.
Gallery for October 2018
October 12, 2018

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