10 good things that happened in 2020 to start 2021 off right
Words By Harry Smith Let’s face it, positivity has been in short supply recently. This last year has been filled…
Read now: The Badger's Seventh Edition!
Pick up a copy of the first edition of the second term. The world has changed so much since we…
Is artificial blood the future of transfusion medicine?
Words By Nisal Karunaratne The concept of ‘artificial blood’ has been around some centuries, ever since English physician William Harvey…
Water off a duck-billed dinosaur’s back?
Words By Sam Ashby In a first for palaeontology, new fossil findings suggest some dinosaurs migrated across oceans to reach…
Gene editing mosquitos to curb malaria
Words By Holly Tarn Mosquitos. The mere mention of the word gets the best of us irritated. And for good…
Lockdown from the view of science: ‘The Great Barrington Declaration’
Words By Rob Barrie With a vaccine for coronavirus on the horizon, an ever-growing group of scientists argues whether lockdown…
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Pick up The Badger’s last edition of the term! Christmas is coming but the big stories are still rolling in-…
Spotlight on sickle cell disease
Words By Colm Kelliher Dr Norris Igbineweka, who is presently a Clinical PhD Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s…
The world’s tiniest boat
Words By Amy-Rose Collins Researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands, helmed by Drs Rachel Doherty and Daniela Kraft, have…
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Is it time for the UK to change its laws?
Words By Rosie Burgess This week’s referendum in New Zealand, in which euthanasia for people with terminal illnesses was legalised…
Andrea Ghez becomes 4th woman to win a physics Nobel prize
Words By Amy-Rose Collins At the centre of our galaxy, there lies a heavyweight monster capable of devouring entire star…
Feeling Hangry?
How our digestive system effects our emotions
Will the Playstation 5 be worth it?
Words by Robert Barrie In the United Kingdom, November 19 shall see the release of Sony’s most recent iteration of…
Fixing our genes
A look at the current status of gene therapy and where it may take us next
A Step Closer to Living on the Moon
NASA announces discovery of water on the surface of the Moon.
Chickens, Gonads and CRISPR: An evening with Dr Güneş Taylor
Words By Rosie Marilyn Burgess On 1 October, Liberate the Debate had the pleasure of spending an evening with Dr…
Cancer drug leads to Multiple Sclerosis breakthrough
Trials lead to first-ever success in the repair of nerve coating in humans, fueling hope for sufferers of the disease.
The COVID-19 vaccine: Combatting the pandemic effectively
Words by Waqar Ahmed Just mere weeks after a six-day pause in the Oxford-AstraZeneca trial, the race for a COVID-19…
International Day of Climate Action - Sunday, 25th October
Words By Sam Ashby If you do one thing for this year’s International Day of Climate Action, aside from reading…
Read now: The Badger Third Edition
Have a read of The Badger's third edition of the academic year! From COVID headlines to spooky book recommendations, this…