If you are one of the millions of people to have made a news years resolution, you may already be struggling to keep it. According to polls and surveys, approximately 80% of people have ‘failed’ […]
Government shutdown shuts off science
The US government shutdown has broken the record for the longest federal shutdown in American history. While this had an obvious impact on many issues, the negative implications for scientific research have perhaps been overlooked. […]
The Battle Against Superbugs in Modern Medicine
The overuse of antibiotics is threatening to plunge us into a post-antibiotic era. Once treatable infections and minor injuries could now kill again with antibiotic resistance at breaking point, new statistics suggest. The Organisation for […]
The California Wildfires: The Realisation of The Threat of Climate Change
Wildfires had been raging in California since the 8th of November when they were finally contained on 25th of November. The wildfires have burnt approximately 150,000 acres of land and have killed at least 88 […]
Brazilian President Bolsonaro: A threat to the environment?
You will no doubt have heard about the countless low blows Trump has dealt the environment, but you might not have heard about the newly inaugurated president of Brazil. His name is Jair Bolsonaro, and […]
Probing Deep into Martian Matter: Reviewing NASA’s ‘7 Minutes of Terror’ after a month of successful InSight operation.
It’s now been over two months since against all odds, NASA’s InSight landed safely on the Red Planet, demonstrating a massive triumph for human achievement. Although the entire journey from Earth to Mars lasted 6 […]
Chytrid Chaos
Chytrid disease is one of the greatest threats to amphibians worldwide and a problem that is only increasing as it spreads across continents. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, shortened to Bd, is the species of fungus responsible for […]
Caecilians – The Amphibian worm monsters?
Best described to sci-fi enthusiasts as looking like a scaled-down version of the worm monsters in Tremors, Dune and (most accurately) The Empire Strikes Back, caecilians are probably some of the strangest creatures out there. […]
Who will feature on the new £50 banknote?
After 2020 the £50 banknote will be issued in plastic and the Bank of England are asking the British public to nominate prominent scientists to feature on it. Since the nomination announcement in November there […]
The woman behind the double helix – forgotten scientists
The structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid, or DNA, is famously attributed to Francis Crick and James Watson, who supposedly had a brain wave while having a few drinks in the pub – who doesn’t? It’s […]