EUSci at the Fringe 2017 / Skeptics on the Fringe
The Edinburgh Skeptics Society (ESS) is a non-profit organisation created in 2009 with the aim of promoting evidence-based scientific discussions...
Prion disease pathogenesis and microbiota: how answering one question unveils many more
Professor Neil Mabbott and his group at the Roslin Institute have contradicted data that was originally published more than 20...
Fighting antibiotic resistance with nothing new
In 2013, the American Centre for Disease Control warned that humanity is approaching a “post-antibiotic era”, a time where bacterial...
Ancestral interbreeding: our Neanderthal relatives may be closer than we thought
Neanderthals, our enigmatic and extinct relatives, may have been even more closely related to us then we thought, new research...
Secrets in the genome: mysteries of the cryptobyotes
Would you believe it if you were told that there are organisms that can exist and function perfectly well in...
The clock is tic-ing for Tourette’s syndrome
Tourette Syndrome, or simply Tourette’s, has historically captured the public eye, and ear, by being simply too bizarre to ignore....
Exoplanet data: a new frontier?
June 19th, 2017 – The Kepler space telescope, quietly searching for a twin to Earth, has scanned the light of...
Artificial intelligence is improving Down syndrome diagnosis
Artificial intelligence is being widely employed across research and applied medicine, offering attractive new opportunities for diagnosis and treatment. Recently, a...
Regeneration: A Story of Becoming
Something special happens when you combine art and science. At first glance, or even first thought, it seems these two...