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Science and Technology
·25th January 2019

A wall to wildlife: how nature will be affected by Trump’s wall

Ella McPherson
To say Trump’s wall is controversial is like saying leaving the EU has been a minor nuisance. The associated government...
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·22nd May 2021

Dawkins and the scientific guise

Anna Davidson
Image Description: a screen with the twitter app on an app store. CW: mention of transphobia, misogyny, racism, discrimination.  “Is...
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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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Culture
·8th December 2021

The Effect review – revelatory and ingenious

Jason Chau
Image Description: The Effect poster with an illustration of Cupid shooting an arrow through pills on a blue background. With...
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Science and Technology
·20th February 2020

Poisonous Pigments of the Past

Andrew Tinkler
Since the dawn of humanity, we have decorated our walls and created striking artwork using vividly coloured compounds. From earliest...
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FeaturesScience and Technology
·26th February 2017

“everything i tweet is real”: The Age of Dril

Will Shaw
“fuck “jokes”. everything i tweet is real. raw insight without the horse shit. no, i will NOT follow trolls. twitter...
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Profile
·13th May 2017

Mars by 2021? Thoughts from the author of ‘The Martian’ and the former NASA Chief Scientist

Tara Snelling
President Donald Trump is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a little fuzzy on the specifics of the Mars mission. Two weeks ago, he...
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Entertainment
·1st November 2015

Bluestockings: the struggle of women in science

Felicity Fitzgerald
“The only thing a woman can own is knowledge.” “I wish I was content to spend a whole afternoon sewing...
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Features
·23rd November 2018

Communicating robust science with Clive Cookson, the future of science journalism

Erica Yokoyama
Image Credit: Erica Yokoyama “In the current climate, where populism is attacking not only the political elite, anybody with an...
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Science and Technology
·10th April 2020

Debunking the myths: preventing coronavirus

Susmita Dave
Image description: ultrastructural of the coronavirus After being encouraged by my parents to take daily turmeric supplements to “prevent corona”,...
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Science and Technology
·17th September 2018

European funding bodies announce ban on paywalled articles

Jai Bolton
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Science and Technology
·27th October 2019

Prof. Sir John Gurdon: from ‘failure’ to Nobel Prize

Naomi Housego Day
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News
·28th December 2019

Oxford University receives €56 million grant for scientific research

Rachel Muir
In the latest ERC funding announcement, on 10th December 2019, the University of Oxford received €56 million in European Research...
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Features
·30th November 2012

A clockwork orrery

Phoenix Paz
Tick-tick, tick-tock, tick-tick. The clockwork inside the fat brass disk clicks as our guide turns the tiny brass handle of...
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FeaturesScience and Technology
·17th October 2017

Biotechnology: bridging the gap between science and entrepreneurship

Josephine Pepper and Thomas Vanderstichele
Biotechnology is at the forefront of the twenty-first century’s biological revolution, developing novel therapies grounded in the mechanisms already exploited...
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Science and Technology
·31st October 2019

10 things about the UK’s urban wildlife

Naomi Housego Day
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Science and Technology
·21st February 2020

Bursting the Bubble: Is Coronavirus leading to an economic crash in China?

Andrew Tinkler
When we say ‘think global’ we mean ‘think big’. The coronavirus (COVID-19) has revealed, if we did not know it...
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Science and Technology
·2nd October 2012

How to snag the perfect college spouse in ten days…

“…To love and to cherish, till death us do part.” Those words – uttered by the besotted, the head-over-heels-in-love and...
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·1st February 2014

The merits of art and soul over science

Sophie Terrett
The inevitable mocking faced by arts students from their science counterparts (usually along the lines of “what, you sit around...
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