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…
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…
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…
‘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…
SpaceX’s Starship
Meet the spacecraft that will take you to Mars, or to New York in twenty-nine minutes.
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…
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,…
Robert Downey Jr- from Iron Man, to Environment Man
RDJ leading an investment fund to support green tech.
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…
Re-visiting the sunshine vitamin in times of Covid-19
Should we be paying attention to our vitamin D intake?
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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…