Month: November 2016

SpaceX looks for permission to launch a 4,425 satellite in order to install high speed internet across the world. Elon Musk first announced his initial plan back in January with…

Introducing our lovely Editor-In-Chief, Freya ! L.A : When and why did you start doing sculpture? F.M : “I’ve enjoyed art since early childhood, finding drawing and painting the best…

New terms have been negotiated for Associate Tutors between Sussex University and the University College Union. The new conditions will see the removal of insecure employment contracts, with zero-hour contracts…

Yes: Glenn Houlihan “The Snooper’s Charter passed into law this week” reads one headline. “UK’s new surveillance law creates a national browser history with a search engine to match” states…

Brexit will lead to a “barbed wire divorce” of the UK and EU, according to Sussex economists in a briefing published this month. The economists at the UK Trade Policy…

A clinical trial was stopped because an independent safety committee deemed that the risks of the study outweighed the benefits. Normally this would be seen as good ethical practice and…

Hove’s Labour MP, Peter Kyle, has said he will vote against triggering Article 50 in Parliament next spring. The remarks come after Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell clarified Labour will not…

A vigil on Transgender Day of Remembrance, held to commemorate trans people who have died in the last year, was disrupted by campus security. Students at the vigil, held on…

Glenn Houlihan and Tom Robinson The University of Sussex has plummeted 38 places in the People and Planet’s Green League to 81st. The University of Brighton came in second place,…

Director David Yeats is back on the Hogwarts Express, except this time the train isn’t leaving from platform 9 ¾ but is instead in midtown Manhattan at the turn of…

Students are turning to alternative avenues of credit to fund their studies, new research has found, with 70 per cent of students reporting that their maintenance loan is not adequate.…

Eduard Campillo-Funollet Recent advances in mathematical modelling and simulation could help to predict the behaviour of bushfires. The new techniques shed light on surprising phenomena such as fire spreading in…

By: Mwenya Lumbwe I’m a big fan political dramas and was looking for something new to watch and I stumbled across ABC’s Designated Survivor when browsing through my Netflix. I…

On the evening of 9th of November, The Sussex University Drama Society (SUDS) presented its first performance of this academic year: Fragments From Your Workplace. The 40-minute piece, written by…

Now that the US election is over and Barack Obama is passing the baton to a demagogue, we must regrettably begin to speak of his presidency in the past tense.…

With many attempts to recreate Queen Elizabeth II’s early years as sovereign, few have succeeded in hitting the mark and portraying history as it happened. Netflix’s £130 million television 6-part…

Lauren Wade Music Editor This Sunday the Brighton Centre will play host to pop superstar, Jess Glynne. The artist’s career kicked off on a mild evening in 2003 after her…

I am writing this article at 8:30pm on a Sunday evening, having spent my entire weekend sat at my desk revising for an exam – I am a Millennial and…

Sussex Students’ Union has drawn criticism from students and it’s own officers for poor “organisation and a lack of communication” in supporting the ‘Save our Education’ Demo which was held…

A recent study has warned that astronauts on missions to Mars could develop dementia as a result of cosmic radiation. Scientists at the University of California found cognitive deficits and…