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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Back in November The Badger, Science reported that SpaceX was planning to launch 4,425 satellites into space in order to provide high speed Internet access across the world. At…
Back at the start of term, the Badger brought to you the exciting news of a breakthrough in the research of CRISPR techniques from the Salk Institute…
Not many people reading this article will know their blood type. However, in some medical emergencies, this is a vital piece of information. Mismatched blood transfusions can…
Sussex researcher calls for a rethink on energy subsidies, highlighting their financial and environmental costs No student enjoys paying the electricity bill; it seems an extortionate expense…
At many points in our lives, we can go through an identity crisis. However, it is a safe bet that few people experience one comparable to that…
The sun has started to make an appearance in the last few weeks and for many this will induce a certain amount of trepidation as every student…
In discussions on climate change, people point to cars, air travel, home electricity and heating as major contributors. However, a little known fact is that agriculture contributes…
A team from the University of Cambridge has created an artificial mouse embryo using stem cells. The results were published in the journal Science last week. It…
History is full of women whose scientific contributions have been hidden under the shadow of a man’s name. Rosalind Franklin’s research on the structure of DNA was…
Sussex study finds that parents contribute to their child’s BMI by 35- 45% and this increases for children of obese parents Researchers at the University of Sussex have…
NASA astrobiologists find new extremophile in a Mexican mine, the big question is how did they get there? Currently on the terrestrial channel “Dave”, former WWE favourite…
Footballers may be at increased risk of dementia due to the brain trauma caused by repeatedly heading the ball In an average game of football a player…
