Science

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...

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...

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?...

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...

Giselle Dailey Scientific research, built on the principles of rationality, evidence, and objectivity, faces an ongoing challenge in maintaining its integrity amidst growing incidents of misconduct. From fabricated data to unethical practices, such as those seen in the infamous case of Hwang Woo-Suk, the pressure to publish and succeed...