Is this it for Human Evolution?
Image Credit: Vector Open Stock via Flickr Humankind, in all our arrogance, have always told ourselves that we were different...
Category: Opinion
What makes a vaccine?
Image Credit: Karolina Grabowska vis Pexels In the age of COVID-19, science communication has become more important than ever. In...
The Perils and Possibilities of CRISPR Whispering
Image credit: Elsie Greenwood In November 2018 a controversial public announcement was published on YouTube by He Jiankui, a biophysics...
Time for an upgrade? Exploring human neural enhancement
Image credit: Aytuguluturk, Pixabay When considering neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces, cyborgs and sentient robots may come to mind – part...
Should we tax plastic?
Governments across the globe have started to consider the introduction of plastic taxes, with a largely negative reception. In Italy,...
Is mind and behaviour recognition going too far? A paranoid analysis
Image credit: Chris Urbanowicz via Flickr Hey Siri, Alexa, Google, Echo, et cetera – these greetings have become normal to listen to...
Sperm in space: The sexual politics of space travel
Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr A recent discovery about the survivability of sperm cells in space...
Video GP appointments: The new alternative to face-to-face consultations
Image Credit: NOGRAN s.r.o. via Flickr A pilot study conducted by researchers at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with...
Will we be changed? The dark possibilities of gay conversion therapy
Image Credit: Michael Ruiz via Flickr Brexit Party MP Ann Widdecombe has received a lot of negative press recently for...