Hanna Irzyk

Science Editor (2025-26)

Hanna Irzyk
The Great Exhibition Road Festival

The Great Exhibition Road Festival

A fortnight ago, South Kensington campus and surroundings became a riot of colour, crowds, and scientific communication. 57,000 people attended the Great Exhibition Road festival, which ran on the 19th and 20th of June, marking 175 years since the Great Exhibition in 1851. The festival is subdivided into ‘zones’

By Lara Begüm Yener, Hanna Irzyk and Anya Chaudhary
This Week In Science: what if we could experiment on live human brains?

This Week In Science: what if we could experiment on live human brains?

We can’t, obviously: the ethical concerns place this firmly in dystopian science fiction territory. Yet, the Yale spinout startup Bexorg is offering something very close. The team created a proprietary system which takes brains removed from deceased people who choose to donate their bodies to science and connect them

By Hanna Irzyk

March elections turnout fails to beat last year's

As voting closed at 2pm on Thursday 12th March, over 146,000 ballots had been electronically cast in the 2026 student elections. The turnout for student-run Clubs, Societies and Project (CSP) Elections was 28.8%, while the turnout for non-CSP “General” Elections was 24.4%. Both turnout rates

By Guillaume Felix and Hanna Irzyk