Science & Technology

Did you know, the one fertilised egg cell we begin life as goes on to form around 100 trillion cells, producing people like you and me? That’s a lot of…

Music, cake, laughter, quizzes and nerdy science talks – yes, you guessed it. It’s time for this month’s Nerd Nite. As you most probably know, Nerd Nite delights and fascinates…

Brighton and Hove has been named as the selfie capital of the UK by researchers. Per person more selfies were taken in Brighton and Hove than any other city in…

A couple of weeks ago Google Inc. took Glass off the market. They say it can now graduate from Google, their experimental lab, and continue being developed in its own…

Work hard play hard. Fully accepting the consequences of a heavy night out, Adira lays across her bed, eagerly anticipating the arrival of her mother to collect her for the…

‘Most cancers are caused by bad luck’; the title that has featured in headlines recently. Many news articles have claimed that the risk of getting cancer is due more to…

The founder of popular and controversial image board, 4chan, has retired after 11 and a half years. Chris Poole, who uses the alias moot, has retired from running the site…

The recent Microsoft conference seems to be bringing about a step forward for the company that in recent days has appeared to be struggling for ideas. The catastrophe that was…

Life is Strange does a fantastic job of emulating a television show, with a story intriguing enough to be worth playing, but some will find that its format is more…

My housemate was given his first smartphone for Christmas. An entry-level device, it serves him well without having cost too much, but it didn’t stop us mocking the confused way…

A new centre as part of the School of Engineering and Informatics is set to open in early 2016, and will teach students about robotics and autonomous systems. The centre,…

Rockstar have always set the benchmark for open world gaming, especially during the previous two console generations. Settings like Vice City and San Andreas feel like living breathing worlds which…

The days are shorter, the wind is tougher, the rain is heavier, and the cold is crisper. Let’s face it; winter is on its way. However there is more to…

A recent study suggests the day humanity has long feared is approaching; the robots are in fact coming for our jobs. Research from the University of Oxford was presented in…

Editor’s note: Nerd Nite Brighton is a monthly event promising to bring you three ‘nerdy’ talks. Previous talks have ranged from how ants work out how to get back home…

Last month saw two tragic incidents plague the commercial spaceflight industry. The first was Antares, an unmanned rocket sending supplies to the ISS, which exploded shortly after take-off. Just days…

Russia is planning on creating an alternative to Wikipedia based on claims that the current Wikipedia has inadequate information on certain Russian regions and that the overview of the country…

Technology developed at the University of Sussex will enable earlier and more accurate treatment decisions and survival assessments for hospital patients with bowel cancer. Bowel cancer kills more than 16,000…

When someone asks us to think of threats to the environment; automatically we think about emissions from burning fossil fuels that are exasperating the effects of global warming. However statistically,…

Assassins Creed Unity was released November 11 2014 to widespread criticism concerned with performance and glitches leading to shares in Ubisoft dipping by as much as 12.8%. Ubisoft commented: “we…