Science & Environment

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 …

Nazifa Younus Contributing Writer   Two billion years from now our galaxy is in for a shock. With every hour that passes, the Milky Way galaxy gets half a million kilometers closer to another sizable spiral galaxy called Andromeda, and it is only a matter …

Melita Wiles S&E Editor   Recent observations of hail-like objects falling from Jupiter’s atmosphere may explain the low levels of ammonia detected on Uranus and Neptune. The planet Jupiter’s clouds consist of both water and ammonia. On Earth, during a thunderstorm, we may experience hail, …