How a change of mindset can lead to a leap into the unknown
In light of her summer placement in a Developmental Biology lab, Courtney Lancaster writes about how to overcome the challenges of considering a career in academia.
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Three dimensions in every sense: A Black History Month feature
To celebrate Black History Month, Abigail Smith-Buckle writes about the inspiring life of Valerie L. Thomas, a black, female scientist and inventor.
It’s Too Late
Responding to Climate Change is currently an obligation, a topic that resurfaces occasionally in the headlines when scientists release new findings, an invisible concept with looming uncertainty that intermittently enters…
Responsible science in an age of advancement
Charlotte Hartley examines how revolutionary scientific and technological advances give rise to ethical dilemmas.
Plastics and Us: How Pollutants in Our Oceans Affect Us
Chemicals compose everything, including items that we are entirely dependent on, such as plastics and antibiotics to name a couple. Nonetheless there remains a sense of chemophobia - the fear…
Bees’ maths ability second to none
Ed Gardner explains the evidence that bees can grasp the complicated concept of zero.
Life on Mars? New evidence might suggest so
Ed Gardner describes the new evidence suggesting life on Mars could be possible.
Dear White People: 400 years of Slavery is literally in our DNA?
We are tackling Kanye West's latest statement that slavery was a 'choice' from a scientific stance by looking at beneath the skin.
6 Disturbing Lessons from a Neurosurgeon
‘The physical nature of our thought, the incomprehensible unity of mind and brain, is no longer an awe-inspiring miracle but instead a cruel and obscene joke.’
All that glitters
Elizabeth Hopper tells us why glitter may have a hidden dark side.