• Photo of Nottingham on ecosia campaign logo

    Ecosia Is Coming To The University Of Nottingham

    Daria Paterek tells us about her campaign 'Nottingham on Ecosia', and how you can do your part in saving the planet, one tree at a time!...
  • Graphical representation: On the reddish surface of Mars, a small robotic helicopter is on the ground in the foreground with the Nasa logo on its front. In the distance is a rover

    NASA Helicopter On Mars – What Does This Mean For Extra-Planetary Exploration?

    Aleyna Adamson Ingenuity, a small helicopter attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover, landed on Mars in the Jezero crater on 18 February 2021. Its mission is completely independent of the rover’s mission and aims to provide purely a demonstration of technology. With Mars being a distance of...
  • Pictorial representation of planet earth surrounded by thousands of satellites in low earth orbit

    Practising The Clean-Up Of Space

    Christina Giallombardo Looking up at the night sky with the naked eye and seeing nothing but darkness and a few stars, it’s hard to imagine the sheer volume of space debris (also known as space junk) orbiting the Earth. The space junkyard gives us a glimpse back in time....
  • A statue of Alan Turing made from many layers of slate on show at Bletchley Park

    Alan Turing: Profile of a Genius Codebreaker

    Christina Giallombardo Alan Mathison Turing’s life was one filled with genius, innovation and secrets, all of which culminated in an untimely and tragic death. Turing was a mathematician, seen as the founding father of computers with his invention of ‘Turing Machines’. He was also gay at a time when...
  • Blue plaque on a wall. The plaque reads: English Heritage. Ada Countess of Lovelace. 1815-182. Pioneer of Computing lived here.

    Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer

    Alice Nott Ada Lovelace was a mathematician in a time when women could not even attend university. Despite her lack of formal qualifications, her work would go on to create the foundation for the technology that our modern world is based upon. Ada Lovelace was born in 1815 as...
  • Google Acquires Fitbit: A Spy On Your Wrist?

    Cam McAdam Google has finally completed the acquisition of Fitbit for £1.5bn, a deal first announced in November 2019. This deal was finalised after a 4-month investigation by the European Commission, over concerns about the lack of privacy for the Fitbit users’ data. But what does this mean? Could...
  • Can UK Homes Be Powered By Offshore Wind By 2030?

    Rian Patel “Wind farms couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding,” Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, said in 2013. Seven years on and a lot has changed. Johnson, as Prime Minister, now proclaims his desire to see the UK as the “Saudi Arabia of Wind Power”, having...