Science Forward

The arts or the sciences? Right-brain or left-brain? Abstract or physical? The binary questions above are limiting. Yet, this limitation doesn’t ignite rebellion. Rather, the majority of us pledge allegiance to either the arts or sciences and so it goes. This happens at a relatively young age. These questions flare up again during the college application […]

The study of marine plastics has a cyclic theme as cyclic debates focus on cleaning up plastic, spinning and gathering at two polar ends of an ocean current. To date, the majority of those debates, especially among government officials, have not led to the implementation of a solution to the pressing marine problem. However, the […]

As a class of environmentally conscious individuals, we spend a lot of time and energy analyzing the presence of plastic in marine environments. But what if there was a way to remove plastics from the equation? A creative duo at the Swedish design team, “Tomorrow Machine” are doing just that. The team, appropriately named for […]