Bad trips ain’t all that bad
New research brings new light on whether “bad” trips deserve the negative press Research at the John Hopkins University shows participants…
Tian(long)gong-1: Chinese satellite out of control
China’s first space station is falling out of orbit slowly and painfully, here to grace the planet Earth in late…
Black Lives Matter has a point about climate change
The organisation’s recent demo at London City Airport has left many scratching their heads. You may not agree with their…
Research happening now at Sussex
We hear a lot about Sussex faculty research in the news – over the summer the story broke that Sussex…
One in five GPs refuse to prescribe hormone medication for transgender people
Biological sex is assigned at birth and determines a large proportion of our future lives – we are expected to…
Hyperactive immune system may be the cause of schizophrenia
For a long time it’s been believed that the cause of schizophrenia lies in the interplay between genetic and environmental…
A newly discovered hormone could help fight type 2 diabetes and obesity
This is the story of how two people could save millions of lives as their genes have revealed a treatment…
Sussex students join Climate March
On 29 November, campaigners from University of Sussex joined over 50,000 people in The London People’s Climate March, calling for…
What is the future of mobile technologies?
Mobile technologies take up a large part of most people’s lives. But in an age of information overload, young people…
Bees dying at alarming rate: food security issues
Regarded as heaven-sent totems of hard-work and obedience in Greece and royal symbols for lower Egypt, honeybees’ humble, hard-working image…
Fossil teeth dated 80,000 years ago found
Latest studies have discovered 40-odd fossil teeth in China, which may provide new clues of the dispersal routes of modern…
New saliva test predicts male sexuality
Over the last two decades there have been several studies on the intriguing subject of sexual orientation in human beings.…
Sussex student wins £5,000 for new social networking app
MSc Computer Science student, George Lengyel, is an entrepreneurial runner-up of the 2015 StartUp Sussex Award, winning £5,000. Using his…
Driverless cars in the UK within 10 years
The Commons transport committee heard that a mixture of driverless, semi-autonomous and manual cars could be on UK roads within…
Is Fitbit too expensive for too little?
Having jogged since I was a kid, I was accustomed to rubbish plastic pedometers, and knew there was clear room…
23andMe to develop designer drugs
Controversial genetic testing company 23andMe announced this month that they intend to create drugs from spit samples. Whilst this sounds…
Full body transplants: What are the ethical concerns?
You would feel uncomfortable if your face is ‘photoshopped’ onto someone else’s body. How about if you wake up one…
Research by Sussex reader to be presented at major conference
A Sussex based researcher is presenting a study at a major IT conference, suggesting that girls program computer code with…
Are we really two years from full body transplants?
“While there’s life, there’s hope”. The famous quote by Stephen Hawking, adopted in The Theory of Everything which won the…
Research suggests brains can control wheelchairs
Best known for having created a full body robotic suit which helped a paralysed man to kick off the 2014…