The Effects of Climate Change Being Felt in Nashville Blake Catlett | February 7, 2023 Climate change is an increasingly worrying issue affecting the world’s…
A Terrible Thing to Waste
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Rare Binary Star System Offers a New Look into the Cosmos
Stuti Jain | November 18, 2022 The origin of the universe has baffled astronomers, physicists and evolutionary scientists for decades. Despite the newest slew of stunning…
Shopping for Environmental Benefits: Using Carbon Capture Technology to Create Consumer Goods
Sarah Platkin | November 2, 2022 Many college students, including us here at Vanderbilt University, feed into the fast fashion industry, whether we know it…
Global Health Uncovered: The Pakistani Health Crisis after the Flood
Kanksha Buch | October 21, 2022 As a severe drought devastated the agriculture of numerous Pakistani provinces, locals desperately awaited the onset of the monsoon…
The Role of Algae in the Fight against Pollution
Currently, most algal blooms are nothing but destructive. Many researchers and industries have become interested in the potential of algae as a useful alternative to common contributors of pollution. This article will discuss three of these developing (and some already implemented) uses for algae.
Habitable Exoplanets: A Possible Escape Route?
Over 4000 unique exoplanets – planets that orbit a star outside our solar system – have been discovered in the Milky Way galaxy, but the majority are not suitable for sustaining human life.
What impact does climate change have on the California fires?
With the increasing number and frequency of these natural calamities, we’re faced with two critical questions: how does climate change impact these catastrophes and how much of that impact is driven by humans?
Climate Change, Zoonosis, and Epidemic outbreaks: Disease Outbreaks as the New Normal
Zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that exist naturally in an animal population and mutate to become viable in the human population upon close contact, have been the cause of history’s most impactful pandemics.