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Legends of Folklore - mythical or medical?

words by Nisal Karunaratne When regarding this, there is one disease that comes to mind: Porphyria. Porphyria is named from…

Rob Barrie 0March 4, 2021Sticky
Science & Technology

Robotic foresters could be key in deforestation fight

Words by Harry Smith We entered the year 2020 at a critical point in deforestation across the Amazon, but in…

Rob Barrie 0March 2, 2021Sticky
Science & Technology

Is capitalism slowing scientific discovery?

Words By Rosie Burgess Post-enlightenment science is purported to be committed to the overarching good and the supposed path to…

Georgia Keetch 0February 21, 2021Sticky
Science & Technology

‘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…

Eleanor Deane 0February 20, 2021Sticky
Science & Technology

SpaceX’s Starship

Meet the spacecraft that will take you to Mars, or to New York in twenty-nine minutes.

Georgia Keetch 0February 20, 2021
News

NASA’s Perseverance rover has safely touched down on Mars!

Words By Amy-Rose Collins At 20:56 GMT yesterday evening NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) received confirmation that the wheels of…

Georgia Keetch 0February 19, 2021Sticky
Science & Technology

Hacking your way through the pandemic.

Words by Nauris Kalnins In the first term of my first year at university, I attended the HackSussex 2019 hackathon,…

Georgia Keetch 0February 18, 2021Sticky
Science & Technology

Robert Downey Jr- from Iron Man, to Environment Man

RDJ leading an investment fund to support green tech.

Georgia Keetch 0February 17, 2021Sticky
Science & Technology

What does the B1.1.7 variant mean for the vaccines?

Words By Ayah El-Dakal Many people have been concerned with news surrounding the new strain of the infamous coronavirus also…

Georgia Keetch 0February 16, 2021Sticky
COVID-19

Re-visiting the sunshine vitamin in times of Covid-19

Should we be paying attention to our vitamin D intake?

Georgia Keetch 0February 15, 2021
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Read now: The Badger's Eighth Edition

Pick up a copy of the Badger’s Eighth edition of the academic year! From post-valentines reflections to pressing uni updates,…

Joshua Talbot 0February 15, 2021
News

Space Mission From the U.A.E. to Begin its Orbit of Mars

Words By Georgia Keetch The first out of three robotic probes have arrived on Mars; with it aptly being named…

Georgia Keetch 0February 9, 2021
Science & Technology

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…

Eleanor Deane 0February 1, 2021
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Read now: The Badger's Seventh Edition!

Pick up a copy of the first edition of the second term. The world has changed so much since we…

Joshua Talbot 0February 1, 2021
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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…

Eleanor Deane 0December 3, 2020
Science & Technology

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…

Eleanor Deane 1December 2, 2020
Science & Technology

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…

Eleanor Deane 0December 1, 2020
Science & Technology

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…

Eleanor Deane 0November 30, 2020
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Read now: The Badger's sixth edition!

Pick up The Badger’s last edition of the term! Christmas is coming but the big stories are still rolling in-…

Joshua Talbot 0November 30, 2020
Science & Technology

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…

Eleanor Deane 0November 19, 2020

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