Sussex students support Calais refugees
Yaz Kharroubi Sussex students and Brighton groups collaborated to give food, blankets and suitcases to refugees being expelled from the notorious Calais Jungle. Thousands of people were evicted last week…
America’s Power: BBC journalist Justin Webb talks bears, Obama and Trump
There’s a particular quality to the United States that is difficult to experience without seeing it for yourself. Roads stretching hundreds of miles, disappearing into the horizon. Winding through dense…
Students say ‘arms manufacturers off campus’
Students occupied the General Dynamics and Thales stalls, the fifth and tenth largest arms manufacturers respectively, at the University careers fair on Wednesday. In an open letter, which has attracted…
Why sexual consent classes should be mandatory
Consent is an issue that affects us all. We need to stop victim blaming and scapegoating and confront the issue openly. Up to 50% of reported crimes affecting students per…
Porn or Pawn: the objectification and manipulation of women in the 2016 U.S. presidential election
The 2016 Presidential Election has been arguably the most dramatic and astonishing US election in history. From Donald Trump’s insistence that the Mexican government would pay for his ludicrous wall,…
Kings Of Leon, WALLS: Review
By: Daniel Parker Seasoned rockers Kings of Leon triumphantly return with their seventh studio album that experiments with the traditional and the unconventional as the Kings battle to shape themselves…
U.S. Colleges: Student Utopias or Microcosms of a Troubled Nation?
By: Felix Thompson From first-hand experience, I can tell you it’s true, it’s all true. It’s just like in the movies. The American college experience really is all beer pong…
Presidetial Debate Spoofs
Every Presidential election gets a lot of media coverage, but this time around viewers actually broke audience records. The first Republican debate on August 4th — starring the one and…
Negative Emission: Panacea or Curse?
Author: Eduard Campillo-Funollet Overconfidence in the new negative emission technologies could lead to a catastrophic increase in carbon emissions, according to a paper published in Science in October. In the…
Alzheimer’s Disease soon to be a forgotten memory?
Author: Hannah Richards Researcher led by Dr Ashe at University of Minnesota have reversed Alzheimer’s Disease in mice- a breakthrough that brings us closer to a cure. The research team…
The Great Barrier Grief
David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Terry Wogan, Britain’s relationship with the EU, to name but a few: 2016 has been a year full of painful losses thus far, so the news…
The Absurdity of Modern Politics
It is fair to say that we are living in troubled times. Not only troubled though, they are becoming increasingly absurd, this absurdity personified by Donald Trump and his ridiculous…
A Coffee a Day Keeps Dementia Away
Hannah Richards High caffeine intake in older women is associated with reduced odds of developing dementia or other cognitive impairments, according to the results of a recent study. Research conducted…
How long can we live?
Eduard Campillo-Funollet A research letter published in Nature at the beginning of the month studies data from a variety of databases to conclude that there is a limit to the…
JMS: The man, the myth, the building
Author: Hannah Richards Winner of the Crafoord Prize, John Maynard Smith was a world leading evolutionary biologist and geneticist, he had an influential impact on the use of game theory…
Graphene-fed Silkworms Spin Conductive Fabric
Researchers at Tsinghua University come up with environmentally friendly method to make conductive silk. Yingying Zhang and her colleagues have recently made a breakthrough in silk production. The new material…
Why the world will miss President Obama
In the midst of an election which has morphed into a farcical contest between ‘no change’ and backwards change, it’s hard not to wonder what happened to American progressivism. Eight…