Joanne Blunt

The search for life beyond Earth may have come a little closer after pictures of the Red Planet revealed evidence of water stains flowing down vast cliff edges during warmer periods of the year. “This discovery has changed our perception of Mars as a dry, desolate planet forever” The...

Impact Science rounds up the science and technology news from September. Surgeons to Get Test Run on Open-Heart Surgery Using 3D Printing – 2nd September Heart surgery is regarded as an incredibly risky and difficult procedure. However, thanks to the combined techniques of MRI scanning and 3D printing, surgeons...

University life has begun and you’re ready to embrace every aspect of your new life. However, the fun is suddenly dampened when you and your friends have to trade in the night life for a hot water bottle, Lemsip, and a packet of Kleenex because Freshers’ Flu has struck!...

Each month Impact will review the latest news and discoveries from the world of science. The Leap Second – 1st July July kicked off with a slight glitch as Twitter and Android ‘got confused’ when the clock read 23:59:60, adding an extra second to atomic time. Although we should...

NASA’s Kepler telescope has found a habitable planet within the Milky Way with striking similarities to our own home world – so much so that it has already been coined as Earth 2.0. Christened with the snappy name Kepler-425b, the newly discovered planet was described by Dr Suzanne Aigrain,...

In light of recent breakthroughs regarding nuclear fusion power, here’s Impact’s quick guide to this developing energy source. What is nuclear fusion? Nuclear fusion, as suggested by the name, involves the fusing together of nuclei. The sun uses it as an energy source. At the Sun’s core the temperature and pressure...

Usually when you arrive at a comedy gig, the make-up of the audience immediately shows what you can expect. A Bill Bailey gig will be filled with politically aware over 40s, Miranda Hart’s with women and families but the audience who arrived gave nothing away as what to expect...