Science
RRS Sir David Attenborough: Floating to the Top
Tom Dormer, Online Science Editor, explains the methods used by the Natural Environmental Research Council to boost the RRS Sir David Attenborough's huge increase in publicity. …
Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve: The Hidden Problem of Microfibres
Issy Murray explores the damaging effects of microfibres in our clothes and explains the actions …
The Legacy of the Moon Landing
Harry Caton, Senior Online Editor, compares the legacy of Apollo 11 to controversial proprosed projects …
SySTEMatically helping you through your degree at Exeter
Elinor Jones, Print Science Editor, provides some useful hints and tips to those studying STEM …
The secret power of art galleries
In Arts and Lit's collaboration with Science, Print Science Editor, Elinor Jones, discusses the use of art galleries in psychiatric …
Mental health services at the UoE – are they doing enough?
Anna Romanovska takes us through the good, the bad and the ugly of the University Mental Health resources …
From Ones and Zeroes to War Hero
Callum Dinnett talks about Alan Turing, a World War II hero who was abandoned by his country, and is …
We Tell Their Stories
Emma Hussain highlights Dr Jess Wade, a scientist who writes Wikipedia entries about other women in science …
News
RRS Sir David Attenborough: Floating to the Top
Tom Dormer, Online Science Editor, explains the methods used by the Natural Environmental Research Council to boost the RRS Sir …
Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve: The Hidden Problem of Microfibres
Issy Murray explores the damaging effects of microfibres in our clothes and explains the actions we can take to reduce …
From Ones and Zeroes to War Hero
Callum Dinnett talks about Alan Turing, a World War II hero who was abandoned by his country, and is …
The story of Homo luzonensis
Print Science Editor Scarlett Parr-Reid tells us what is known about Homo luzonensis, a newly discovered species of humans. …
Lite Science
RRS Sir David Attenborough: Floating to the Top
Tom Dormer, Online Science Editor, explains the methods used by the Natural Environmental Research Council to boost the RRS Sir …
SySTEMatically helping you through your degree at Exeter
Elinor Jones, Print Science Editor, provides some useful hints and tips to those studying STEM degrees at uni. …
Tardigrades; Weird and Wonderful
You’ve heard of grizzly bears, black bears, and polar bears, but prepare to meet the fiercest bear of them all…and …
Our Smartphone Addiction
Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives, for better or for worse. We are connected to friends and …
Common Misconceptions
The Dark Side of Artificial Light!!
In 1994, when an earthquake led to a power outage in Los Angeles, a lot of anxious residents called local …
The Physics of Santa
Father Christmas, Santa or Coke’s best marketing campaign I think we can all agree does an exceptional job every year …
Policing in the past?
As students and as members of a technological generation, we tend to pride ourselves on being a bit more tech-savvy …
We are all A LOT older than we thought!
Carina Schlebusch led a team of researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden in a project combining genome mapping with anthropology …
Environment
RRS Sir David Attenborough: Floating to the Top
Tom Dormer, Online Science Editor, explains the methods used by the Natural Environmental Research Council to boost the RRS Sir …
Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve: The Hidden Problem of Microfibres
Issy Murray explores the damaging effects of microfibres in our clothes and explains the actions we can take to reduce …
Apocalypse sooner than we thought
On Monday 8th of October, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming report warning politicians about …
Every breath you take
As we all well know, air pollution is the result of the release of various harmful gases that negatively impact …
Health
The secret power of art galleries
In Arts and Lit's collaboration with Science, Print Science Editor, Elinor Jones, discusses the use of art galleries in psychiatric …
New target for depression treatment
As the second leading cause of disability worldwide, major depressive disorder has a profound effect on individuals and society. Treating …
What’s really in the flu jab?
Andrew Wakefield’s paper claiming that the MMR vaccine caused autism has been widely discredited and described as fraudulent. Alongside poor …
The placebo effect: worthwhile or a waste of time?
The placebo effect is where a drug of no therapeutic value, often sugar pills or saline injections, causes a physical …
Technology
The Legacy of the Moon Landing
Harry Caton, Senior Online Editor, compares the legacy of Apollo 11 to controversial proprosed projects of today. …
From Ones and Zeroes to War Hero
Callum Dinnett talks about Alan Turing, a World War II hero who was abandoned by his country, and is …
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 …
A loss of face
Until recently I thought that social media was a force for good. As someone who sometimes finds social situations fairly …