Snap! Goes the Future…
Natural innovations: New research shows how far the development of biomimetic sensors has come and the potential they have for mimicking real-life nervous systems
Caterpillar, Butterfly, or Insect?
Evolutionary origins of how plants recognise their predators, plus plant-talk as an information sharing model
From the Lab to your Plate – the Science Behind Five Intriguing Foods
Missed your weekly dose of food? Ex-Food Editor (and your newest Science Editor) Julia is back and easing into her new role with a fusion of the two for a light read…
In Summary: Nobel Prize 2019
Science editor Sânziana Foia gives an overview of the research behind this year’s science Nobel Prizes
Resistance is Futile: Why Antibiotic Overprescribing Remains a National and Global Problem
Antimicrobial resistance is a problem that we’ve known about for around 75 years now, with Alexander Fleming referring to it in his Nobel Prize speech way back in 1945. Since then the problem has become recognised internationally. It is estimated that around 700,000 people every year die from
Psychedelics research at Imperial College enters a new phase
The second phase to be exact. This year the newly minted Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London began conducting a first-of-its-kind phase II clinical trial designed to test how effective the hallucinogenic compound psilocybin is at treating patients with major depressive disorder versus a current prescription antidepressant, escitalopram.
Time to go to sleep
Almost all animals sleep, but we don’t know why. Modern research is revealing how sleep is essential for numerous brain functions such as learning, memory and immunity.
The revival of measles
Measles is on the rise in the wake of the popularisation of ‘anti-vaxxer’ rhetoric, decreasing herd immunity, and increasing risk. Make sure you are protected!
Oxygen: the generator of life
New research indicates that oxygen abundance was strongly correlated to cycles of flourishing and declining biodiversity during the development of prehistoric multicellular life.
Xenon could be used to reduce traumatic brain damage, Imperial study finds
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability for people aged under 45 in developed countries. The first ever life-long study in mice has found that head injury effects can be halted by xenon gas. Following TBI, xenon prevented the mice from early deaths, improved their
UK tour of Tim Peake’s Spacecraft attracts 1.3 million visitors
The Science Museum marks anniversaries of Apollo moon missions with a Summer of Space
Mycoprotein: a potential beneficial food for people with type 2 diabetes?
If I were to ask you the first thing that comes to mind when you think of fungi, you would probably say mouldy walls, gone-off food, or athlete’s foot. The Fungi kingdom is often not viewed in a positive light. However, we owe a lot to fungi; they produce