Increasing awareness of environmental issues in recent years has meant that many of us have made changes to our lifestyles, whether that’s buying a reusable water bottle, shopping second-hand or eating less meat. However, we […]
Fluorescent Frogs
Amphibians come in a wide range of colours, from the startling fire salamander to the many brilliant shades of dart frog, but scientists at St. Cloud State University have recently discovered a new spectrum of […]
Composting Cremation & Climate Change
Have you ever thought about what happens to you when you die? I don’t mean whether there is a heaven and hell or if your spirit comes back as a Desert Locust (see my previous […]
STEM Women at Leeds
In light of celebrations for International Women’s Day on the 8th March, when the phenomenal achievements made by women in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) are ever so briefly recognised and […]
Quantifiably Supreme
Quantum computing came to the forefront last October when Google published an article in Nature declaring it had achieved ‘Quantum Supremacy’ with its Sycamore processor. With their claim promptly rebuffed by IBM in a tit-for-tat […]
Shaping our Understanding of the Universe: Flat or Spherical?
A new paper published in Nature Astrology has bewildered cosmologists by concluding that the shape of the universe might be a sphere, sparking a ‘cosmological crisis’ and forcing scientists to rethink their understanding of the […]
The Perfect Swarm
10 Plagues of Egypt Bingo is a game you just don’t want to win. East Africa is yet to tick off rivers of blood, death of firstborns and thunderstorms of hail and fire, but they […]
Banishing Blights on Bees
Scientists from The University of Texas, Austin, recently found genetic alterations in bacteria which live in bees’ guts to be successful at killing Varroa Mite, an Asian native mite that kills honey bees, as the […]
The UK’s First Climate Assembly Met – But Now What?
The UK’s first citizens’ assembly on climate change has now had two out of their four allotted meetings held to tackle the meaty challenge of deciding how the government should meet the legally binding target […]
The Clouds Part for Climate Change Modelling
A new ground-breaking research project, co-led by scientists at the University of Leeds, is attempting to make sense of one of the biggest mysteries in our skies: clouds. The high-tech five week survey will analyse […]