• Why you’re more than just tired: the science behind academic burnout

    Rachel Cox It is Sunday evening, and you’ve spent all weekend working on that two-thousand-word essay with its endless list of references and fast approaching deadline. You aren’t even halfway. Dirty plates are piling up around you, and your fridge is slowly becoming bare. Although the list of things...
  • The Thrill of the Chill: Why We Love A Good Scare

    Rayyah Uddin  If you’ve ever screamed during a horror movie, only to immediately laugh and claim that ”you knew that jump-scare was coming”, then congratulations: you’ve experienced one of psychology’s most delightful contradictions. Humans, for reasons scientists are still debating, love to scare themselves. Not always, of course –...
  • Trust Your Gut, and Choose Better Bread

    Summer Revely Bread is a staple part of the student diet, and in later life. I’d argue that toast and toasties only come second to pesto pasta in the dream lineup of post-night-out carb loading. But have you ever thought about what is actually in bread? And the contrasting...
  • Your Brain on Birth Control

    Summer Revely Since the release of the first contraceptive pill in the 60s in the USA, which saw a staggering 1.2 million users in its first year on the market, being on contraception has become a staple in the lives of 150 million females across the globe. The originally...
  • From Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Manchild’ to Vogue’s recent article, are straight men becoming an ever bigger target of disgust than before?

    Lara Samme As ‘Movemeber’ continues to be celebrated and charities for men’s mental and physical health urge the importance of donating, we should reflect upon the dystopian horrors of a ‘man-hating world’. Vogue Magazine and following trends ‘What Vogue says goes’… 2025 really seems to be the year of...
  • A Beginners Guide to a Digital Detox

    Holly Innis It’s nearly midnight. You’ve been doomscrolling on TikTok for the past hour and learnt nothing except that people think Brooke Monke’s feet are abnormally large. You go onto Instagram reels for a moment’s relief, and you’re greeted by a morbidly obese Al cat crashing into a washing...
  • Strava: Healthy or Harmful?

    Jayde Tarin Every morning, thousands of students lace up their trainers, sync up their smartwatches and head out for a run- not just for fitness but for the little dopamine hit that comes from uploading their workout to Strava. The fitness tracking app has become pervasive across university campuses...