Science & Environment

Melita Wiles S&E Co-Editor   As winter storm Landon began Wednesday night, The College of Wooster made the decision to give professors the option to go remote or cancel classes on Thursday, Feb. 3. Other facilities, such as the Scot Center and all academic buildings …

Jonathan Logan Editor-in-Chief   Science is flexible, and since the beginning of the pandemic, scientific conferences have had to take place in virtual settings. While science and its proceedings can come across as a stream of factual calculation and conjecture, the process of sharing its …

Melita Wiles S&E Editor   “Don’t Look Up,” a movie released at the end of 2021, is a satire about how real-life environmental concerns such as climate change and the current COVID-19 pandemic are ignored and deemed not real issues by our society. Grad student …

Kayla Bertholf S&E Editor   When hearing about volcanoes, one might think of the violent eruptions portrayed as common in the prehistoric world of the dinosaurs, or of the long-ago Pompeii eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. However, these geological events are not unique …

Melita Wiles S&E Editor   Recently, scientists have discovered what they think is the first planet ever to be found outside our galaxy. This possible exoplanet, meaning a planet outside our solar system, was discovered in the Whirlpool Galaxy (the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51)) …

Kayla Bertholf S&E Editor   People who live in Northeast Ohio and along the coast of Lake Erie have grown up hearing the constant rhetoric about how the local bodies of water are polluted, gross, and unsafe to swim in. This region is home to …