• From Cute to Cringe: Understanding the Dreaded ‘Ick’

    One minute you’re staring into their eyes, imagining your long future together, with two children, three dogs and a cottage somewhere picturesque. The next, they clap as the plane lands, and you’d rather be shot back into the air than ever spend another minute with them. That feeling of...
  • Could David Attenborough save us from the climate crisis?

    We all know the three R’s, reduce, reuse and recycle, ingrained into our minds since childhood. But how often do we think about those three words? More importantly, how often do we put them into daily practice within our lives?...
  • What’s Hot in Notts? New release!!!

    Josephine Hatton In December a new podcast launched: What’s Hot in Notts? As a third year biology student, I decided to get curious about the work that our lecturers do behind the scenes.  In each episode of the podcast, I interview a different member of our faculty here at...
  • A deeper dive into DeepSeek

    DeepSeek is a large language model (LLM), this is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that learns to understand and analyse text-based prompts and reply in turn. It can be used to generate text, code and complete complex maths problems much quicker than humans or standard search engines. Its...
  • Dark Matter Under Our Noses

    Jess Lewis Our universe contains millions of galaxies of all different types, but what they all have in common is rotation. Galaxies spin around their centre of mass at hundreds of kilometres per second, but these speeds are not what scientists expected. These galaxies were rotating at speeds so...