Trying to shop ethically on a student budget isn’t the easiest thing in the world, and some sustainable influencers would have people believe that sustainability is an all or nothing game. However, there are plenty of small, affordable ways to follow a more ethical lifestyle that can fit into a student budget without going entirely […]
Planet
Humans- the cause of major ecosystem collapse
“Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers” – Guardian headline. At first glance this headline doesn’t appear to be the true. Insects appear to be everywhere. Our building stairway is littered with moths, spiders, mosquitos and unidentified flying creatures. Is the ecological Armageddon a media bluff, or is Lafrowda just plagued? A […]
Life on Mars
Fancy a trip to Mars? Perhaps you’ve had quite enough of the housing situation in Exeter? Would you mind the 141 million mile commute to uni? Or maybe a change of scenery is in order? Not to worry, NASA has the answer. Since they sent up their first rover, the famous Pathfinder in 1997, NASA […]
Pluto: A brief history
Remember the anagram: My Very Easy Method Just Sums Up Naming ..well, naming what? Pluto was officially demoted to the utterly humiliating status of a dwarf planet in 2006. Back before we utterly shattered its dreams of stardom (planetdom?), what was the history of our favourite dwarf? Little Pluto first burst into our consciousness in […]
Kepler-452b: Earth’s older cousin
[dropcap size=small bg_color=”#5e9cd4″]T[/dropcap]wenty years after the first exoplanet was discovered, NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth sized planet in the so called ‘goldilocks zone’ of a star similar to our own Sun. Since March 2009, Kepler has been searching for exoplanets across the Milky Way galaxy. Kepler-452b is the first confirmed planet […]