Sussex to create new ‘Computing, Robotics, Electronics and Mechatronics Centre’ with £10m of funding
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,…
GTA V – Video Game Review
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 season is changing, Winter is coming; Sad or S.A.D?
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…
Hello robots and goodbye to jobs
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…
Nerd Nite: November 2014 Review
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…
One small step forward for space travel, two giant crashes back
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…
Russian Wikipedia alternative
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…
Tumour-analysis technology for bowel-cancer developed at Sussex
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…
The future of food production
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,…
Is it ok to release an unfinished game?
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…
The complexities of the blood vessel system and angiogenesis
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.…
Terrorism in the online age
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…
The vast space between the stars
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…
S-apps-bury’s: less time, more fun!
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…
Phone scam targets students
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…
MCM London video game preview special
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…
“An Earth cousin”: Kepler-186f
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…
Free Microsoft Office for students
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.…
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – Video Game Review
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…
Nerd Nite 20th November 2014 Preview
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…