Category: News
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Fusion Energy: A viable alternative to fossil fuels?
Nishwal Gora explores the immense potential of fusion energy and it’s implications for the future as well as considering it’s viability today.
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APEX7: Edinburgh Medical Students Advancing the Frontiers of Medical Research
Discover the adventure of a lifetime with APEX 7. Learn how Edinburgh students can join a one-in-a-lifetime expedition to the Bolivian Andes, participate in cutting edge research and explore one of the world’s most breathtaking regions.
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Give It a Shot
To celebrate the beginning of World Immunization Week, let’s focus on its biggest roadblock – vaccine hesitancy.
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Crisis in Cosmology: The Laniakea Supercluster, and what it means for the Universe
Nishwal Gora examines how the James Webb Space Telescope’s insights into the Laniakea Supercluster intensify the “Hubble Tension”, which continues to challenge the very foundations of cosmology and our understanding of the universe as it was, is and will be.
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Resolutions and Willpower
Are you sticking with your New Years Resolutions? Emma Walsh looks at the neuroscience research behind making and keeping our New Years Resolutions.
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Lockdown led to quieter but not cleaner oceans
In February 2020, Italy became the first country in Europe to impose a lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the following months, amidst the stress of those initial lockdowns, the sounds of birdsong freed from traffic noise were a source of comfort and optimism to many around Europe and the rest of the…
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Every breath you take, every memory you make
The way you breathe can influence your brain’s ability to form long-term memories, writes Clara Lenherr.
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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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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.
