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Metagenomics: How We Can Use Soil to Find New Antibiotics
By Michelle Wheater Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest problems the medical community is facing today, and one most of us have...
The Natural Philosopher
Oct 13, 20183 min read


Range Expansion of Tick Disease Vectors in North America: The Spread of Tick-Borne Disease
By Maryann Makosiej Lions and tigers and…ticks, oh my? It’s not Oz, but we live in a world where ticks, external parasites that attach to...
The Natural Philosopher
Oct 13, 20183 min read
Climate Anxiety: The Hidden Ramifications of a Deteriorating Environment
By Lily Marino While climate change is predominantly regarded as an issue of the environment, trends over recent years have begun to show...
The Natural Philosopher
Oct 13, 20183 min read


Pollute at Your Own Risk: Where We Stand in the Cause of Red Tide
By Loret Haas-Hanser In its entirety, the ocean covers over 70% of the planet, and is home to 50-80% of all life on earth. Constituting...
The Natural Philosopher
Oct 13, 20183 min read
Big Data for Big Climate Change
By Joseph Wills You may not have ever heard of Big Data, but you’ve definitely used it. The term “Big Data” refers to the application of...
The Natural Philosopher
Oct 13, 20183 min read


Glaciers and Chaos as Tools for Addressing Climate Change
By Cai McCann Undoubtedly, climate change means significant changes in climate patterns. What’s the first idea that comes to mind with...
The Natural Philosopher
Oct 13, 20183 min read
Bioinformatics: The Frontier of Genetics and Beer
By Sean Quigley It’s 2018. We live in an age where technological advances are occuring at record rates, and science is one of the main...
The Natural Philosopher
May 4, 20182 min read


Launching into Data to Cure Cancer
By Olivia Baccellieri Cancer - a word that projects a fear of the unknown, and uncertainty for a person’s future. As a medical...
The Natural Philosopher
May 4, 20183 min read


Age of the Engram
By Conor Dickson Throughout the history of learning and memory research, it seemed as though the future promised the exposition of the...
The Natural Philosopher
May 4, 20184 min read


Transcriptional Gene Signatures and the Extinction of Disease
By Loret Haas-Hanser In a utopian society, the prospect of disease has been eliminated. Millions of lives are stolen by disease every...
The Natural Philosopher
May 4, 20182 min read


Transgenerational Epigenetics
By Zach Finzi Genetics is the field of study which focuses on patterns of inheritance and heritability in genes from parents to...
The Natural Philosopher
Apr 6, 20185 min read


Walking Back Into the Woods for Mental Health
By Olivia Baccellieri Soil, leaves, insects … as therapeutic techniques? In recent years we have made numerous advancements within the...
The Natural Philosopher
Apr 6, 20183 min read


How Much of Our Personality is up to Us? The Effects of Nature and Nurture on Childhood Aggression
By Nick Fontaine One of the most significant debates present throughout the history of science has been that of Nature vs. Nurture. The...
The Natural Philosopher
Apr 6, 20183 min read


Environmental and Genetic Susceptibility in Immune Cells
By Loret Haas-Hanser Humankind has a tendency to seek out answers hidden within the infinite bounds of science. Always evolving and...
The Natural Philosopher
Apr 6, 20182 min read


Stem Cell Bioprinting: the Pursuit of a Physiological Utopia
By Loret Haas-Hanser Using technological means to advance humans further as a species is something that we have done since the dawn of...
The Natural Philosopher
Mar 2, 20182 min read


The Dermal Abyss: Interactive Tattoos
By Henry Mitchell People often use tattoos to signal their beliefs, their priorities, and the groups they belong to. Soon, people will be...
The Natural Philosopher
Mar 2, 20182 min read


Personalized AI: Using Algorithms to Elucidate the Memory Recall Process
By Avery St. Sauveur We’ve all been there: we’ve forgotten that important definition for an exam, forgotten the right way to that store...
The Natural Philosopher
Mar 2, 20183 min read


Neuropixels: A New Age of Brain Imaging
By Conor Dickson In neuroscience, one of the greatest challenges that face researchers is the quality of observational tools at their...
The Natural Philosopher
Mar 2, 20183 min read


Zap Zap: Electric- Eel-Inspired Technology
By Mykl Ambros The body of the electric eel, Electrophorus electricus, is 80% electricity-producing organs. Their organs have rows of...
The Natural Philosopher
Mar 2, 20182 min read


What Does it Mean to be Conscious? Using functional MRI to Communicate with People In Coma
By Nick Fontaine I’ve always found comas and vegetative states very interesting. They are a prime example of our body’s extreme reactions...
The Natural Philosopher
Mar 2, 20182 min read
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