Meta: Facebook’s Swift Rebrand
words by Maria Margot Kafka, Staff Writer On October the 28th, a mere 6 days after media outlets published the Facebook Papers, Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta: the name of the…
Life Changing Technology: Freestyle Libre
words by Molly Openshaw, Arts Print Editor The Freestyle Libre and its dramatic impact on diabetic people’s lifestyle The Freestyle Libre (FL) is a flash monitoring glucose system to measure…
Organ transplantation — are pigs the future?
words by Charlie Ellis, Staff Writer As of Thursday 21st October, within the UK there are 6125 people waiting for an often life-saving transplant. This number is even larger in…
Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth
Plans to bring back an extinct giant are creating great excitement, but is it justified? words by Rob Barrie, Science and Technology Editor Not for 10,000 years has the woolly…
Breast Cancer: facts, figures and misconceptions
An overview of breast cancer during Cancer Awareness Month words by Kamakshi Jani With 55900 new breast cancer cases per year, or more than 150 cases per day in the…
Mars Rover Mission Takes Another Successful Step
Words by Rob Barrie, Science and Technology Editor The rover on Mars, Perseverance, confirms it is in the correct location to look for life. Perseverance touched down on the Red…
Do We Really Have a COVID-19 ‘Miracle’ Drug?
Words by Sereena Kang, Staff Writer Misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 ‘miracle’ drug – discussing evidence for and against ivermectin. Misinformation on ivermectin has been circulating across social media platforms with…
October’s Social Media Outage
Words by Dominic West, Staff Writer What happened with Facebook a fortnight ago? What is a DNS error? Why did it take so long to fix? Let’s take a look.…
The Hearing Loss Endemic Amongst Students
Rob Barrie – Science and Technology Editor The lack of regulations on nightclub noise level means hearing in young adults is being irreversibly damaged. Research suggests that prolonged exposure to…
Civilians Launch into Space
Words by Eva Wallis, Staff Writer An insight into the crew of the world’s first all-civilian space mission. The ‘Inspiration4’ mission aboard spacecraft ‘Resilience’ has become the first ever crewed…
Top tech to get you through first year
University is an extremely rewarding experience but parts of it can be challenging. For many, it involves living away from home for the first time. Without home commodities, going about…
What actually is ‘Fresher’s Flu’?
A story of our very own virus library, fresher’s week and that inevitable runny nose. Words by Rob Barrie, Science And Technology Editor New friends. Alcohol. Parties. And that cold…
The eco-friendly underwater farms
Words by Jane Zhuk, Staff Writer The United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development goals of 2015 were set with high hopes, yet clear intentions. Among them, we see statements such as…
What’s best for students — PS4 OR PS5?
Words by Max Cowie, Staff Writer For those looking for a new tech investment for this coming academic year, the age old question of when to take the video game…
A tweet worth 2.9 million dollars
The market for NFTs has skyrocketed over the past year – but what are NFTs and why have they taken off so rapidly? NFT stands for Non-Fungible token. Fungibility refers…
A novel way of targeting brain cancer
A median survival of only 15 months following diagnosis makes glioblastoma multiforme the most aggressive brain tumour – with local tumour recurrence in up to 90% of cases despite intervention.…
Oldest sequenced DNA reveals new mammoth species
The record for sequencing the oldest DNA is now held by ancient mammoth DNA over one million years old, breaking the previous record from a horse leg bone estimated at…
A farmer, a propellant tank and the future of SpaceX
Why was part of a SpaceX rocket found on a rural farm in Washington? Falcon 9 is a partially reusable rocket employed by SpaceX mainly for its Starlink missions. Starlink…
ARIA: new funding for experimental science
The new high-risk, high-reward scientific research agency announced by the UK government. With funding for research more and more competitive, there is an urgent need for new sources and increased…
Your brain on fiction – how we become what we see
The intense moments of deep immersion are caused by something more complex than empathy. Brain imaging shows our brains are tricked into ‘becoming’ a character for our own benefit. We…