Science

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

Following the path paved by Singapore, the USA and Israel, meat produced in a lab is expected to have a place on supermarket shelves in the UK within the next two years....

Leacsaidh Marlow In the wake of current measles outbreaks in the US, Impact’s Leacsaidh Marlow explores the case details, and the wider atmosphere of scientific distrust being purveyed by the Trump administration… The CDC has reported that as of April 17th there have been 800 reported measles cases in...

Leacsaidh Marlow A recent study has suggested that a simple at-home saliva test has a greater accuracy than the current front-line technique for prostate cancer screening.   Prostate cancer, the second largest cause of cancer deaths for men in the UK, is notoriously difficult to effectively screen for. The...