Hey! Are you looking to smoke, but want to keep a clear mind or refrain from traditionally addictive tobacco cigarettes? Well, there’s actually a whole variety of plants out there that are safe to smoke, some even boasting calming and…
Evolution is a very complicated field – and one of the bigger long-standing questions is crabs! Specifically, why animals keep evolving into them! The phenomenon of animals, or specifically crustaceans, evolving into a crab-like shape has occurred so often it…
Introduction The effort to bring greenspace and restore natural ecology to the Georgia Tech campus can be seen in the EcoCommons, a park built near the Keneda building and the Center Street Apartments. One of the goals of the EcoCommons…
Breaking news! Playing isn’t just for vertebrates! In a recent study at Queen Mary University of London, researchers Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona, Cwyn Solvi, Amelia Kowalewska, Kaarle Mäkelä, HaDi MaBouDi, and Lars Chittka discovered that bumblebees are very far from…
In a recent article written by Freda Kreier, I learned about a very interesting phenomenon that some researchers have discovered. Many different species of seabirds have had their behavior studied during typhoons in the seas around Japan. What’s going on?…
Why are small arms better? A question bugging palentologists for years: Why did T. Rex evolve to have short arms? Why was it beneficial for them to have shorter arms? Intuitively, one might think that longer forelimbs would be much…
If you think of science fiction, you might think of Victor Frankenstein. Originally from Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein, the creature and its lore has been modified over the centuries, but the general idea has remained quite the same. The story…
Written by Julia Raver and Lauren Mellinger Coffee – an integral part of your morning routine. You wake up and groggily walk to the kitchen to make your morning cup. It has become so integral to our morning routine that…