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These honeybees are being threatened by pesticides and toxic chemicals.

Tigra scientifica: Pollinators, pesticides … problems?

Valancy Harrison, Contributor November 3, 2021

If the bees die, we all die. These tiny pollinators are vital for ecosystems around the world, yet pesticides introduced into the habitats of bees are detrimental to their survival. Toxic chemicals are...

Earth's sun

Tigra scientifica: planets, good enough to eat!

Abby Cram, Contributor October 18, 2021

As humans, we require an abundance of nutrients to maintain our health. In fact, this is true of every living inhabitant of our planet. When pondering our space in the pale-blue world we share on this...

NASA astronauts in space — Original from NASA. 

Tigra scientifica: astronauts gone viral

Amy Rees, Contributor October 18, 2021

Imagine not leaving your office for months at a time. Add sleep deprivation, social isolation and life-or-death situations to the mix, and you have the typical work experience on the International Space...

An eyeball stares into the stars

Stem cells next step? Cure the blind!

English Laserna, Tigra Scientifica Writer April 26, 2021

It seems a day does not go by without hearing about some miracle procedure happening for patients around the globe. Yesterday was the first robot assisted heart transplant, and today is the use of stem...

Greener world

For a greener world

Hannah Herring, Tigra Scientifica Writer April 26, 2021

Reduce, reuse, and recycle—We have all heard this phrase so many times that the concept of “going green” often makes many eyes roll. Interestingly enough, a sustainable future...

Heart made out of coffee beans

A coffee loving heart

Valeria Miyamoto, Tigra Scientifica Writer April 26, 2021

Heart disease impacts over 30 million Americans each year, making it the number one silent killer among Americans today. In a recent study published in the journal, Circulation: Heart Failure,...

Cast set with orange and blue tape

Healing hack: Using trauma to nurture

Jordan Childs, Tigra Scientifica Writer April 26, 2021

As the lunch bell signals your middle school class to the cafeteria, your peer is swarmed by students to look at their freshly applied cast. By the end of the lunch period, the once-solid, colored wrap...

Healthy dinner plate

Blue jeans and fiber: One in the same

Lila Tuckman, Tigra Scientifica Writer April 7, 2021

Diets are no different than fashion trends. They gain popularity, become exhausted by the public, disappear and then cycle back decades later. However, as blue becomes the new black and the A-listers...

Two individuals in a disagreement

Disagreement exhausts vastly more of the brain than agreement

Sean Tuckman, Tigra Scientifica Writer April 7, 2021

When referring to magnets, opposites attract. Psychological research firmly supports that this statement is far from applicable to humans. Rather, we exhibit an affinity for those similar to ourselves...

Hundred dollar bill and other bills

After stimulus check “disappears,” Clemson student sues CDC while blaming the vaccine

Krishna Patel, Senior News…? Reporter April 1, 2021

After returning from spring break, John Johnson, a Clemson freshman, found that his $1,400 stimulus check had gone missing from his bank account. Johnson is suing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Clemson football to play season opener in London

Clemson football to play season opener in London

Megan Kinner, Sports Editor April 1, 2021

The Tigers are headed to London! Following the lead of the NFL, the NCAA has decided that it is time for college football programs to start playing games outside the United States as well. The NFL has...

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Bin Shapiroh protests naming of WAP College of Business

Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Paste Chief April 1, 2021

On Oct. 16, 2020, Clemson University announced that the Clemson College of Business (COB) would be renamed the Wally O. and Anne Peters College of Business after a casual $69 million donation from the...

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