A tweet worth 2.9 million dollars
The market for NFTs has skyrocketed over the past year – but what are NFTs and why have they taken off so rapidly? NFT stands for Non-Fungible token. Fungibility refers…
Oldest sequenced DNA reveals new mammoth species
The record for sequencing the oldest DNA is now held by ancient mammoth DNA over one million years old, breaking the previous record from a horse leg bone estimated at…
Your brain on fiction – how we become what we see
The intense moments of deep immersion are caused by something more complex than empathy. Brain imaging shows our brains are tricked into ‘becoming’ a character for our own benefit. We…
Has reporting of the AstraZeneca vaccine increased scepticism?
Recent articles claiming that The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is linked to blood clots is just one example of how one could interpret the media as having a negative effect on…
Sussex students win national debate
Words by Eleanor Deane Last weekend, a team of 4 students won the national student debate competition in medical ethics, hosted by the Institute of Medical Ethics. The team consisted…
‘It’s A Sin’: A retrospective look at the retrovirus
Words by Eleanor Deane, Science and tech editor ‘It’s A Sin’, the 5-part Channel 4 miniseries, depicts the lives of a group of friends living in London throughout the height…
10 good things that happened in 2020 to start 2021 off right
Words By Harry Smith Let’s face it, positivity has been in short supply recently. This last year has been filled with constant ‘Breaking News’ alerts illuminating our phone screens and…
Is artificial blood the future of transfusion medicine?
Words By Nisal Karunaratne The concept of ‘artificial blood’ has been around some centuries, ever since English physician William Harvey was the first to recognise and name the importance of…
Water off a duck-billed dinosaur’s back?
Words By Sam Ashby In a first for palaeontology, new fossil findings suggest some dinosaurs migrated across oceans to reach Triassic Africa. Our knowledge on the distribution and behaviour of…
Gene editing mosquitos to curb malaria
Words By Holly Tarn Mosquitos. The mere mention of the word gets the best of us irritated. And for good reason – aside from the incessant itching, mosquitos are a…
Lockdown from the view of science: ‘The Great Barrington Declaration’
Words By Rob Barrie With a vaccine for coronavirus on the horizon, an ever-growing group of scientists argues whether lockdown really is the best route into a post-pandemic world. During…
Spotlight on sickle cell disease
Words By Colm Kelliher Dr Norris Igbineweka, who is presently a Clinical PhD Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and Imperial College London’s Haematology…
The world’s tiniest boat
Words By Amy-Rose Collins Researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands, helmed by Drs Rachel Doherty and Daniela Kraft, have created the worlds smallest 3D printed boat. At just 30…
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Is it time for the UK to change its laws?
Words By Rosie Burgess This week’s referendum in New Zealand, in which euthanasia for people with terminal illnesses was legalised by a landslide margin (62.5% to 33.8%), marked a very…
Andrea Ghez becomes 4th woman to win a physics Nobel prize
Words By Amy-Rose Collins At the centre of our galaxy, there lies a heavyweight monster capable of devouring entire star systems in a single gulp. Three Laureates have the beast…
Decreasing the cost of medical cannabis
Words by Eleanor Deane, Science and Tech editor EMMAC Life Sciences Group, Europe’s largest independent cannabis company has become the first in the UK to take complete control of the…