Online Science Editor Vincent Plant discusses Lovelock’s Gaia theory, the Coronavirus pandemic and the Paris agreement
Future
Quite the Crowd
Alina McGregor discusses the apparent change in future population predictions
A Second Pandemic? How Antibiotic Resistance Could be as Deadly as COVID-19 to Global Health
Tamara Moule discusses how antibiotic resistance could be as deadly as COVID-19 to global health.
The Legacy of Coronavirus
Alina McGregor considers how coronavirus will impact our environment and how this impact may be tangible many years from now
A Tale of Parallel Universes, or Lack Thereof
Callum Dinnett reports on a tale of parallel universes (or lack thereof) and how hopes of proving their existence may be being raised too soon
Strange New Worlds
Vincent Plant lists six exoplanets that humanity could populate in the near future.
The Legacy of the Moon Landing
Harry Caton, Senior Online Editor, compares the legacy of Apollo 11 to controversial proprosed projects of today.
AI Don’t Think So…
Whether it’s adverts for the Amazon Alexa, Sophia the robot tweeting or ‘Black Mirror’ throwing its viewers into a hellscape where personal security robots routinely hunt and kill humans, our society has Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the brain. With its applications seemingly endless, an AI takeover does seem inevitable. However, it has some drawbacks that […]
Every breath you take
As we all well know, air pollution is the result of the release of various harmful gases that negatively impact the environment, like Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Particulate Matter (PM) and other pollutants. In 2014, Europe had an estimated 500,000 premature deaths due to abysmal air quality, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA) […]
When Stars Collide
This story really has it all. Really it does; astronomy, physics, chemistry, two dying stars spiralling into one another (resulting in a cataclysmic explosion) and a whole lot of gold, the earth’s mass in gold to be precise! It all started in a galaxy not too far away – about 130 million light years away […]