• 30 Seconds Closer to Midnight

    When over 100,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki over the course of three days by two separate explosions, it became clear that the horrors technology allowed us to unleash upon each other had escalated to a new level. The Second World War showed the world mechanised slaughter...
  • If nature was built by machines

    We have sculpted our planet since the beginnings of human existence, and in doing so have changed so many ecosystems that the earth’s stability is now reliant upon human intervention. More than ever before, conservation institutions have to work tirelessly, and often unsuccessfully in attempts to remediate the anthropogenic...
  • The secret lives of horny insects: what makes a cockroach a lover or a fighter?

    When you think of romantic animals, cockroaches may not be top of your list; I suspect they would struggle to even make the top 10. Despite these human preconceptions, the presence of many baby cockroaches worldwide suggests that male cockroaches have something special up their ‘sleeves’ to get the...
  • Designer Babies and the Creation of Superman – What is CRISPR?

    These days, it doesn’t matter if you’re a hard-core science nerd or simply a casual I Fucking Love Science browser on Facebook – big news will reach you anyway, and in 2016, nothing is bigger than CRISPR, the shiny, new genetic modification tool that is already on track to...
  • Frack off our wildlife reserve

    So far 2016 has been the rollercoaster ride from Hell and we want to get off.  Planet Earth is being thrown down an impending voyage of doom, and it is enduring an all too uncomfortable journey in the process. Records have been broken month on month for the highest...