Editor's note: This story appeared in truncated form in the Barometer's June 2024 print issue.
In 1772, Lord Botetourt, an English transplant to the American colony of Virginia, announced to the student...
The sensory motor cortex, a slice of brain dedicated to sensing and moving different parts of your body, is topologically divided; the nerves that control and sense your right leg are found in a very certain...
As construction on the new Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University comes to a close and its doors approach opening, the Student Fee Committee passed a decision package...
The fee bills presented to the Associated Students of Oregon State University’s Senate from the Student Fee Committee that passed Feb. 21 are now on ASOSU President Carissa O’Donnell’s desk to approve...
A torrential rain floods the forest floor as heavy raindrops throw themselves through canopies of leafy limbs and thunder brews overhead, preparing to strike.
White lightning snakes through the charged...
In their final meeting, the Student Fee Committee voted to reject the proposal for a fee-funded student wage increase and approved other proposals, like increasing the amount of student tickets for athletics.
According...
Most bees don’t really look like bees. In fact, the Pollinator Health Lab at Oregon State University has boxes upon boxes of specimens that look more like gnats or beetles than bees.
Linc Best, director...
Editor’s Note: This is a column and does not reflect the views or opinions of the Daily Barometer
With the message “This machine kills fascists” stuck to the front of his guitar, your first idea...
In 2015, during a severe drought in Washington, John Henning, a courtesy professor in the Oregon State University Department of Crop and Soil Science, noticed something interesting happening to the hop...
Moss-laden trees rise out of a mattress of pine needles and ferns. A distant fog blurs the end of the hiking path and the air is dense with the smell of damp soil. Overhead, still branches move and the...
Class is starting in a few minutes and you are pressed for breakfast.
Luckily, a basket of muffins sits out on your table. You grab one and as you rush out the door, take a big bite, wrapper and all.
The...
The supermarket only has so many types of rice.
For Oregon State University’s many students with a multicultural or underrepresented cultural background, there is no guarantee that local supermarkets...
A school of paperclip-sized, striped fish dart around the bubbling tank.
Wiggling in the currents, dropping between the surface and bottom, it’s surprising to think these zebrafish are one of the...
Back in late 2017, when the world was abuzz over the total solar eclipse, viewers experienced a few moments in the middle of the day where the sky grew dark.
It was a rare instance where humans were...
In the midst of all the clubs and organizations recruiting new members this fall, a new workout program will be starting its inaugural year.
CHAARG, which stands for "Changing Health, Attitudes and...
Yourself, a blanket and the night sky.
That is all it takes to enjoy the Orionid meteor shower coming up in late October of this year, or the tail end of the Perseids happening throughout September.
Meteors,...
Editor's Note: This article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer." This column does not represent the opinion of The Daily Barometer. This column reflects the personal opinions of the...
