I am thirty years old and I am afraid of going to sleep. For over half my life, sleep has not been a safe place. Instead, more often than not, I wake up screaming because there is a man in my room. Sometimes he’s just a shadow in the corner without a face, other times…
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CancerSEEK has to be recognised for its potential in saving millions of lives, but there is a lot to work on in order to be offered in a real-life setting as an alternative or support to other screening tools.
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The Dyson Award is an annual international design competition, running in 23 countries. It is geared towards engineering, industrial design and product design university students, as well as former students who have graduated in the past 4 years. The award – £2,000 for the national competition, and £30,000 for the international – is given to…
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Any scientist will tell you that science is a process of trial and error. Error, however, is rarely rewarded (and often not even admitted to) by the scientific community. This is a result of stagnation in the way that scientific discoveries are made public, with scientific publishing seemingly stuck in a paradigm unaffected by the…
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Hollywood has provided us with countless post-apocalyptic scenarios, in which robotic technological advances have led to the eventual callous overthrow of their makers. However, recent research released by Stanford University seems to suggest that these ideas may not be as fictitious as they seem; in fact, you could be forgiven for mistaking the information presented…
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In recent years meditation has managed to shirk its label as a hippie practice, rebranding itself and becoming more popular in the West than ever before. Endorsed by businesses and universities alike, they boast that it helps focus, reduces stress, and can actually make the user more content. But how do the claims of this…
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Presumably, most of us wouldn’t expect the words ‘aerospace materials’ to be thrown around in casual, day-to-day conversation. An even smaller minority of people would associate them with a whole subclass of engineering (let alone a possible undergraduate degree…!). Whilst – at first glance – the title of this topic may appear quite niche, it…
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Objectively, bees are great. Their gentle murmur as they clumsily sway through floral blooms is an inherent ingredient to the British summer. Acting as key pollinators in ecosystems across the globe, it was Einstein who stated, “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would have only four years to live”.
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Every year, eight million tonnes of plastic waste either end up in the sea, or as landfill. Is there a sustainable solution to stop this cycle? Or, at the very least, to slow it down? Recent research has provided results that might just contain the answer we’ve been looking for.
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The March for Science took place in cities across the world yesterday, with Washington’s protest seeing tens of thousands in attendance. People poured onto the streets in defiance of the impending budget cuts to research, vocalising the importance of science both on personal, and universal levels. However, in the midst of this positive solidarity, I was particularly struck…
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