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Science and Technology
·5th August 2023

Researchers may have cracked the code for room-temperature superconductivity

Emily Hudson
Featured image credit: US Department of Energy on Flickr Featured image description: A grey cylinder floating above a white surface....
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Science and Technology
·4th July 2023

NANOGrav observatory confirms Earth surfing 30-year-long gravitational waves

Emily Hudson
Featured image credit: Olena Shmahalo for NANOGrav Featured image description: Artist’s impression of gravitational waves formed by black hole binaries....
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Science and Technology
·25th May 2023

The little allotrope that might – does graphene still have potential?

Tymoteusz Syrytczyk
Graphene was promised to be the next big thing. I remember being told by my chemistry teacher about this miraculous...
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The first discovered aperiodic tile: known as the "hat" polykite.
Science and Technology
·11th May 2023

Penrose and the search for “Einstein”: the story of the aperiodic monotile

Emma Zinkin
In 1961 Hao Wang conjectured that there exists a finite number of tiles of different shapes which can only fill...
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Science and Technology
·23rd April 2023

Artificial wombs and the future of pregnancy

Nicole Hasler
The idea of growing babies in pods has long been limited to dystopian science fiction such as the Matrix movies....
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Science and Technology
·28th February 2023

Coffee – are we drinking it wrong?

Lola Bell
We are creatures of habit, and with the UK population drinking around 98 million cups of coffee a day, our...
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Science and Technology
·12th February 2023

Artificial intelligence is able to detect signals of life beyond our planet

Olivia Allen
‘Are we alone?’ is perhaps one of the most profound questions, asked repeatedly by humanity since the dawn of space...
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Science and Technology
·10th January 2023

TikTok as therapy: The uptick of mental health on TikTok

Nicole Hasler
Most portrayals of TikTok in the media deplore the countless hours young people seem to be wasting on the app....
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Science and Technology
·22nd November 2022

A case against avoiding the voi: summarising e-scooter studies

Emily Hudson
They’re quiet, they’re small, and their riders stand tall: e-scooters have imprinted themselves on our consciousness, adding to the list...
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Science and Technology
·10th November 2022

How does it all work? Zooming in on the James Webb Telescope

Emily Hudson
The James Webb Space telescope (JWST) has been sent up into the stars to help us answer questions about the...
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Science and Technology
·2nd August 2023

Formula 1 Engineering scholarship scheme extended until 2025

Charlie Bowden
A partnership between the University of Oxford and Formula 1 to offer scholarships to Engineering undergraduates from under-represented backgrounds has...
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Science and Technology
·8th June 2023

On the razor’s edge: biological risk in the 21st century

Nicole Hasler
Three years ago, the world we live in changed seemingly overnight: as the Covid-19 pandemic spread, people stayed locked indoors,...
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Science and Technology
·24th May 2023

Stress: its effects and how to manage it

Nicole Hasler
Our bodies have evolved to respond to threats. In human history, being able to quickly react to predators and run...
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Science and Technology
·6th May 2023

‘He literally has zero clue what he’s doing’: Twitter’s verification purge sparks criticism and concern

Piers Mucklejohn
On 20th April, Twitter officially retired its ‘Legacy Verification’ feature, removing the blue tick identifier from hundreds of thousands of...
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Science and Technology
·5th March 2023

To leave or not to leave: that is the question

Emily Hudson
Featured image description: A screencap of a scene from film The Martian, featuring some human pod-like structures on a rusted,...
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Science and Technology
·19th February 2023

Are black holes the source of dark energy?

Emily Hudson
Featured Image Credit: NASA Featured Image description: An artist’s impression of a black hole. A black sphere surrounded by a...
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Science and Technology
·15th January 2023

Another small step for man: Are the aims behind NASA’s plans to send astronauts back to the moon purely scientific?

Olivia Allen
December 2022 marked 50 years since Eugene Cernan, the last man to leave the moon, returned to Earth and NASA’s...
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Science and Technology
·2nd January 2023

Social Prescribing: tackling COVID psychological toll

Harry Walton
Featured Image Credit: Duy Pham via Unsplash Featured Image Description: Friends with arms interlinked, sitting on a wall and looking...
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Science and Technology
·17th November 2022

A bird in the hand is worth $44 billion: Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and what it means

Nicole Hasler
After months of negotiations, Elon Musk is finally the new owner of Twitter. The engineer of Tesla and SpaceX fame...
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