Science

There are always people who manage to stay completely relaxed in the run up to exams while the rest of us stress and eat our weight in biscuits. But have you ever wondered why? The answer could be as seemingly random as a difference in blood group. Last year,...

When over 100,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki over the course of three days by two separate explosions, it became clear that the horrors technology allowed us to unleash upon each other had escalated to a new level. The Second World War showed the world mechanised slaughter...

These days, it doesn’t matter if you’re a hard-core science nerd or simply a casual I Fucking Love Science browser on Facebook – big news will reach you anyway, and in 2016, nothing is bigger than CRISPR, the shiny, new genetic modification tool that is already on track to...

Upon publishing his pivotal general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein produced a series of gravitational field equations for the great minds of the time to solve. Little did he know that the solution would predict a phenomenon that would draw in much astonishment, scepticism and confusion. This was the...

Recently, no fewer than five nuclear testing reports have come out of North Korea, a state that seems to be detonating weapons of mass destruction unnervingly often. North Korea (or The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) is possibly the most repressive state in the world, with a maddening system...

The disconnect between the general public and the scientists whose research they fund is a constant source of frustration on both sides. Opportunities to bridge this gap are few and far between, with most members of the public feeling either totally disengaged with science or, at best, assuming the work being carried out is...

The Pint of Science Festival is a worldwide, three-day public event from the 23rd to the 25th of May, where people across the world gather in pubs and venues to hear about, speak about and try out some scientific concepts. Pint of Science states on their website “Our aim...