Digestive system and mental health linked
Jodie Smith The gut, also known as the digestive system, isn’t popularly associated with mental health and emotions. This should be surprising since the gut is commonly referred to as…
Latest IPCC Report Spells Climate Doom
Elliot Tebboth The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, known as SR15. It outlines the benefits produced from limiting global temperature…
New Shipping Route Opens in Arctic due to Ice Caps Melting
Jodie Smith As climate change is a topic under constant discussion and scrutiny across the globe, recent news of container ships moving on through the new Arctic passageway introduces a…
CRISPR patent rights awarded, implications for innovation
Meena Zaveri CRISPR is a relatively new and exciting innovation whose reputation has exploded across the science community in the last few years. It is a cheap and easy method…
Lost Letter of Galileo Rediscovered, Implications for Current Scientists
Elliot Tebboth We now commend Galileo’s contribution to the body of scientific knowledge. In his work “On the Method of Theoretical Physics” published in 1934, Einstein heralded him “the father…
Junior Research Associates speak on their summer
The Junior Research Associate (JRA) scheme is a program run by the University to give undergraduate students who are interested in post-graduate research hands-on experience. Students participate over the summer…
The best breakthroughs of 2018 thus far
As we begin a new school year, this is a great time for Sabrina Edwards, the new Science editor, to reflect on the best scientific breakthroughs of 2018 so far.…
Ethnic-bioweapons: between conspiracy and reality
Bioweapons exist, while ethnic-bioweapons are whispered conspiracies. Pandemics can fairly hazardous to human life, the 1918 Flu Pandemic killed 20-50 million people. A man made pandemic could cause complete pandemonium,…
Cambridge Analytica: did Facebook share your personal data?
The last couple of weeks have been tough for Facebook, as it reels from the public scrutiny it has received over its lackadaisical protection of personal data. In an effort…
Young blood promotes brain regeneration
On the “growing old is natural” vs “it should be medically reversed” debate, vampires have crossed the picket line from the get-go and scientists have just proven they may have…
The educational psychology of children with autism
The scientific field of educational psychology studies the relationship between learning processes and the individual differences in cognitive development, motivation and intelligence. The majority of children are able to understand…
Biohacker regrets own biohacking: CRISPR done wrong?
Aaron Traywick, 28, could well claim to be the world’s most notorious ‘biohacker’, that is, a do-it-yourself biologist, looking for new ways to do things with biology using techniques such…
Billionaire builds colossal 10,000 year clock
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has gone ahead with a plan to build a giant clock to promote long term thinking. The clock’s design should allow it to be accurate for…
Neuroscience: it must be love on the brain
If you’re madly in love, I’d like to ask you to take a moment to consider what exactly is happening inside your brain. Love is a many-chemical thing, a complicated…
Rockets and technopoltics: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy
The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy could become a defining feature in humanity’s exploration of space, but this impressive technical feat opens up a new frontier of questions around technology…
Your God is Not My God: Evolution as Fact
Evolution. It is a scientific FACT. Not a ‘theory’. A theory in the scientific world is a specialist term to mean a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural…
Anti-Ageing… Again
Will we ever defeat death? No. But we’re doing our damnedest. Over the past… history of man-kind, there have been treatments for anti-ageing. From primitive routes such as berries and…
Our Plastic Oceans
More plastic in the sea than fish by 2050 if action is not taken In 1997, Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain competed in a yacht race and…
Two new poker programs beat the pro’s
20 years on from the momentous event in Artificial Intelligence when a computer program, “Deep Blue”, beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov over an extended number of games, two new poker…
Superbugs receive a dual drug attack
Earlier this year, under the attention grabbing title of ‘Gonorrhea can be incurable, pay attention’, we reported on a United Nations Assembly meeting on the issue of antibioitic resistance. The…