Superbugs receive a dual drug attack
Earlier this year, under the attention grabbing title of ‘Gonorrhea can be incurable, pay attention’, we reported on a United…
Update on ‘SpaceX spaced out’
Back in November The Badger, Science reported that SpaceX was planning to launch 4,425 satellites into space in order to provide high…
Energy subsidies: more harm than good
Sussex researcher calls for a rethink on energy subsidies, highlighting their financial and environmental costs No student enjoys paying the…
A new home for your memories
The sun has started to make an appearance in the last few weeks and for many this will induce a…
Women in Science at Sussex
History is full of women whose scientific contributions have been hidden under the shadow of a man’s name. Rosalind Franklin’s…
You have your parents BMI
Sussex study finds that parents contribute to their child’s BMI by 35- 45% and this increases for children of obese parents…
Footballers and boxers share a risk of dementia
Footballers may be at increased risk of dementia due to the brain trauma caused by repeatedly heading the ball In…
You are what you wear
Students wearing a police-like uniform were more distracted by images of people wearing hoodies than students wearing mechanic’s overalls. In 2015…
A new breed of robot
Soft, transparent robots could soon be doing surgery as engineers at MIT have used advanced hydrogel to make powerful, durable…
Courgette crisis: vegetable shortage hits Brighton
Reports of courgette, iceberg lettuce and broccoli shortages have been hitting the news over the last few weeks. Pictures of…
Organs on demand
Part-human, part-pig embryos have successfully been created, marking the creation of the first chimeric embryos from two large, distantly related…
Three blind mice and a human with lung cancer
Researchers at the Salk Institute California have successfully used the CRISPR technique to edit faulty genes in adult cells. Previously…
Bottles irresistible to sea birds
Seabirds are more likely to ingest plastic because it emits an odour similar to krill digesting algae. Everyday 15000 pieces…
Real men… drop out of drug trials
A clinical trial was stopped because an independent safety committee deemed that the risks of the study outweighed the benefits.…
Millennials work as hard as the rest
I am writing this article at 8:30pm on a Sunday evening, having spent my entire weekend sat at my desk…
A trip to space: an unforgettable experience?
A recent study has warned that astronauts on missions to Mars could develop dementia as a result of cosmic radiation.…
Keep an eye on the police
A research group at the University of Cambridge has found that providing police officers with body-worn reduces complaints against the…
The Hinkley Conundrum
It will cost billions to build, the technology isn’t sound and there are cheaper, safer alternatives yet we’re still going…
Gonorrhoea can be incurable, pay attention
On the 21st September The United Nations General Assembly held a meeting on the issue of antibiotic resistance and it’s…
Catching Poachers is all Fun and Games
Poaching has been a threat for many years but the situation is now so critical that elephants and rhinos may…