Science & Technology

If all of your blood vessels were aligned in a straight line, the length of the new line would be greater than the distance of travelling around the world twice.…

The Islamic State, seeking to set up a caliphate in Levant, has been prominent in the headlines over the past months. However, we live in a world where headlines are…

A common misconception is that space is “just space”, however the region between the stars in our universe is known as the “interstellar medium”. This interstellar medium consists of matter…

Sainsbury’s is beginning trials for a new app designed to streamline the shopping process. The app allows users to create a shopping list of items from home and will then…

Students are being targeted by a new mobile phone scam, in which victims take out phone contracts before passing the phones onto others. Sold as a simple way to make…

Between 24-26 October the biannual London MCM Comic Con took place, welcoming thousands upon thousands of pop culture enthusiasts who were either looking to try out the latest upcoming game…

Named after NASA’s Kepler space telescope, Kepler-186f was discovered 490 light-years away from Earth. This ground breaking discovery marks the latest planet outside our solar system which is similar enough…

From December 2014, students at the University will be able to download Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus to use on a Windows PC for free for the duration of their course.…

Jetpacks seem to be the new “cool thing” in first person shooters this generation, adding a sense of increased mobility to a genre that struggled in innovate towards the end…

Attention scientists and inquiring minds! The fifteenth instalment of Nerd Night is upon us, kicking off at 7.30pm at The Caroline of Brunswick. Starting with Johnathan Milton, working with Punk…

I find myself maundering on and on to my equanimous flatmate Adira. Earlier today something rather ordinary happened. The type of event that would be sidelined for news of much…

Does the internet ever forget? Based on EU rulings, it does. “The right to be forgotten” means that internet users can currently request that Google, the worlds most popular search…

It has been said that a dog is truly a man’s best friend. Loyal and loving; this can certainly be true for many people, but for university students a restriction…

Three years ago Edmund McMillen, the designer of Super Meat Boy, released a seemingly basic game combining simple twin-stick shooting and Zelda dungeoneering. It wore its indie-ness on its sleeve,…

YES For sceptics, there will never be enough reliable data, replicated studies, or a representative sample large enough to convince people that life-after-death exists. Neurophysiologist Dr Peter Fenwick states himself…

The UK government may introduce harsher prison sentences for online harassers a.k.a. internet trolls. The maximum prison sentence for the most severe cases could rise from six months to two…

When the majority of people hear the words ‘animal extinction’, some obvious animal species come to mind; the tyrannosaurus rex, the saber-toothed tiger, the mammoth or even the dodo. But…

Beyond Earth is the latest game in the renowned Civilization series of strategy games. The typical set up of taking small group of settlers and crafting a culture of your…

Anyone who has ever downloaded a mobile app game has inevitably come across that one level that seems simply impossible. The screen lights up with the taunting message mocking your…

A man in San Diego has been diagnosed with the first case of Internet addiction disorder, doctors have said. During his residential treatment program, doctors identified that the man “exhibited…