Author: EUSci
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There is time to save the seas from our thoughtless extractivism
Lara Watson argues we should stop deep-sea mining before it wreaks havoc on marine environments.
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Sláinte! Does a glass of wine a day keep the doctor away?
Thomas Vinterberg’s Dutch film Another Round or Druk won the Oscar for international feature in 2021. The film revolves around 4 teachers who – over a birthday dinner – discuss a theory proposed by Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud that humans must consume low doses of alcohol to compensate for a natural deficiency and realise their…
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Inside the jaws of the tyrant king
Hady George explores how CT scans are revealing the inner workings of T.rex’s skull.
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A fresh dip into the health benefits of outdoor swimming
Alkisti Kallinikou asks if open water swimming can help your physical and mental health.
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Resistance isn’t futile
Like the Borg in Star Trek, microbes are constantly evolving to get past their host’s defences (thankfully they don’t tend to assimilate their hosts into a hive mind). They are becoming resistant to the drugs created to prevent diseases caused by them, and this tactic is far from futile.
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Could genetically modified animal organs solve the human transplant crisis?
Emma Nance discusses the pig-culiar story of the man who had a pig’s heart.
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Have we found the mysterious Planet 9?
Our solar system is filled with many unsolved mysteries, one of them being the existence of an icy planet far beyond Neptune.
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Mapping Subtidal Seagrass Bed (Zostera marina) Habitat Suitability in Scotland
This research article, written by Le Huang is based on her Master’s dissertation project for MSc Marine Systems and Policies (2020/21) at the University of Edinburgh. Specifically, her dissertation project mapped seagrass bed habitat suitability in Scotland. This project was conducted under the supervision of the University of Edinburgh, and NatureScot. This article summarises the…
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‘It is because of the brave women of the past that we can enjoy the freedoms that we have today’
Alice Drinkwater reflects on the story of Eunice Newton Foote, the unrecognised climate change pioneer who did not have the right to vote, let alone an equal voice to male scientists at the time of her discoveries in the 1850s.
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Could locusts be the future of bomb detection? The “surprisingly simple” brain mechanism behind locust scent recognition
Lily Sharratt-Davidson explores how researchers attempting to bioengineer bomb-sniffing locusts have discovered that the insect’s sense of smell is governed by an arithmetic neuron mechanism. For several years now a team at Washington University in St. Louis has been researching the odour sensing system of locusts, with the aim of bioengineering locusts that are able…