Coronavirus – a breakdown
Image credit: Katie Chao and Ben Muessig via Flickr 2019-nCoV, a previously unknown type of coronavirus, emerged in the central...
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The Microbiome: Can New Sequencing Techniques Fast Track Therapeutic Discovery?
A true staple of modern pop-science, the age-old nature vs nurture debate is the bread and butter for many. However,...
SpaceX’s new Starship builds hopes for Mars missions
Image credit: Getty Images, via BBC Recently, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, laid out his plans for the company’s new...
A new interpretation of dreams: Our in-dream behaviours highlight our unconscious anxieties
Image credit: Gavin Clark via Flickr A dream: You’re in a room with a man who is extremely dirty. He...
A tale of two wildfires: the Amazon Rainforest and the Congo Basin
Image credit: NASA FIRMS When NASA released satellite imaging of the Brazil forest fires on the 24th August, it quickly...
PTSD: The evolutionary advantage
PTSD via Jesper Sehested A third of people who survive traumatic events experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD survivors involuntarily...
The gendered dimensions of autism
Image credit: ElisaRiva via Pixabay. Gender has been at the forefront of discussion in recent years. Amongst all the talk...
Being a woman in science: Changed times?
Image Credit: Martha mawia via Wikimedia Commons As part of the Edinburgh Science Festival, the Royal Society of Edinburgh hosted...
Neuroscientist Gina Rippon dismantled the myth of the ‘female brain’
Image Credit: GregPlom via Pixabay The work of Dr Gina Rippon has veered into controversial territory. More controversial, in fact,...