Hanna Irzyk

Science Editor (2025-26)

Hanna Irzyk
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