The D.U.Quark

Farming Cities: the Potential Environmental Benefits of Urban Agriculture

By Natalie Campbell With urbanization being a common theme for the future, urban agriculture has long been considered a possible solution to growing food while also reducing [...]

May 12, 2017

Have we Found our Neighbors? The Search for Habitable Planets Outside our Solar System

By Madeline Galbraith Recently, the discovery of seven Earth-size planets that could contain water was announced. The system, called the TRAPPIST-1, contains a group of [...]

April 24, 2017

Opinion: Defense of Science

By Nijah Glenn Science has always been a field of controversy. From the ancient world in which the beginnings of modern day science began to the Middle Ages to as recent as [...]

April 24, 2017

Journeying to the Heart of the Matter

By Madeline Galbraith On December 5th, 2016 Dr. Douglas Higinbotham, a staff scientist from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, took us on a journey to discover [...]

February 6, 2017

The D.U.Quark Talks with Dr. Douglas Higinbotham

By Daniel Robinson, Quark Editor-in-Chief Duquesne University was lucky to host visiting scholar Dr. Douglas Higinbotham, a staff scientist at Thomas Jefferson National [...]

February 6, 2017

Letter From the Editor

Dear Readers and Contributors: We live in a time of constant scientific discovery, debate and discussion, and it is more important than ever to understand the implications [...]

February 1, 2017