“Secrets of the Brain”: Special Screening of the New BBC Horizon Documentary With Award-winning Filmmaker Andrew Smith and Professor Gilly Forrester
On a chilly Monday evening, September 22nd, families and individuals from around Sussex gathered in the Fulton Building for the exclusive pre-screening of a brand-new BBC Two Horizon episode –…
Student’s Health Spotlight – Meningitis: A Student-Focused Breakdown
A serious and sometimes life-threatening illness, meningitis is a condition involving inflammation of the tissues surrounding the brain. Most commonly, this takes the form of an infectious disease, caused by…
Portslade Science Fair was a Hit Among Families
On Saturday, 5 July 2025, from 11 am to 3 pm, families gathered at East hill Park Café in Portslade for the town’s first-ever free science fair. The fair welcomed families across…
Climate, conflict and collapse- The End of Bronze Age Civilisation
David Wengrows “What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West” explores the technological creations of different communities that defined success and advancement across civilisations. Within…
Strychnine Is Good?
“Some folks like water, some folks like wine, but I like the taste of straight strychnine”. These are the opening lines to a song by 60s garage rock band, The…
Neuralink Carries Out First Ever Human Clinical Trial Amid Raised Concerns Surrounding Potential Prior Protocol Violations.
In a 9 minutes long live-stream, Noland Arbaugh, the first recipient of the neural implant made by the Brain-Computer interface company Neuralink was seen playing chess online by being able…
Worth the Hype(rloop)?
The hyperloop concept proposes a revolutionary mode of transportation which aims to mitigate the resistance that regular vehicles are (quite literally) held back by. For this to be possible, air…
Quantum Computing: The Future of Tech?
The scientific renaissance of the 20th century saw the rise of quantum mechanics and information theory. In 1982, physicist Richard Feynman famously stated that it was not feasible to model…
Operation Paperclip: Nazi Scientists Granted American Citizenship
Words by Lucy Colpitts You may be familiar with the Prime Video show, “Hunters”, starring Al Pacino and Logan Lerman, a seemingly fictional series following the lives of vigilante Nazi…
Driverless cars in the UK within 10 years
The Commons transport committee heard that a mixture of driverless, semi-autonomous and manual cars could be on UK roads within the next ten years.
Is Fitbit too expensive for too little?
Having jogged since I was a kid, I was accustomed to rubbish plastic pedometers, and knew there was clear room for improvement. As has been the case with cameras, the…
Research by Sussex reader to be presented at major conference
A Sussex based researcher is presenting a study at a major IT conference, suggesting that girls program computer code with more complexity than boys. Dr Judith Good, reader in the…
An adventure with 3D-printing in Brighton
In one form or another, 3D-printing has been around since the 1980’s, but it is only now maturing from its industrial heartland into a plethora of applications and through to…
Zoom in with telescopic contact lenses
There is no doubt that cyberpunk fans have a lot to look forward to in the future. A recent development in retina technology has recently come in to focus in…
Why we need online voting
In the run up to this year’s general election there has been much talk about how to encourage young people to vote. Campaigns like Bite the Ballot have staged online…
The legality of Let’s Play
On Jan 29 Nintendo rolled out it’s Creator’s Program, “designed for people who post videos to YouTube that contain Nintendo intellectual property,” sharing revenue between Let’s Players and the Japanese…
Upgrading phones: Size really does matter
Last week, I was fortunate enough to buy myself a new phone. Nothing out of the ordinary there. Rather than buy the next incremental upgrade, I decided to take the…
Industry heads muse on the potential threat of AI
We’re not quite at the point of Skynet seeking to destroy us all, we are however living through a period that sees artificial intelligence increasing in not just its power…
The ever changing tides of piracy and The Pirate Bay
The last few months have been a turbulent ride for file sharing site The Pirate Bay. For years the site “hid” from the authorities by constantly changing their URL and…
Resident Evil HD Remaster– video game review
As far as classic survival horror is concerned, it rarely gets any better than the original Resident Evil. The haunting atmosphere, terrifying enemies and cringe-worthy dialogue defined the genre when…