Fresher’s week is great for meeting new people, exploring Leeds and getting introduced to the Faculty that will be your academic home for your next 3 or 4 years here. However, and let’s be honest […]
The Future of the Summer Olympics: Too Hot to Handle
This summer, no matter where you went or what you found yourself doing, you’d have been hard pressed to miss the plethora of sporting prowess that we have been treated to. No more so than […]
The Green Age – where are we now and where are we going?
Introduction Visit any major city and you will be greeted with people going about their daily lives and routines. They’ll be walking, running and using transport to take them to their destination, through a sea […]
The Death of Boaty McBoatface
If you didn’t already know, the newest of Britain’s polar research ships is to be called the RRS Sir David Attenborough; a distinguished title indeed, but certainly much less fun than Boaty McBoatface. Of course […]
The Death of Boaty McBoatface
If you didn’t already know, the newest of Britain’s polar research ships is to be called the RRS Sir David Attenborough; a distinguished title indeed, but certainly much less fun than Boaty McBoatface. Of course […]
Paroxetine to reverse heart failure after heart attack
A common antidepressant may reverse heart failure after a myocardial infarction (heart attack) Scientists claim. Paroxetine is an antidepressant that has been prescribed since 1991 in the UK and is classified as a Selective Serotonin […]
Bilingualism’s benefits outweigh pitfalls
Until the first half of the 20th century, bilingualism was thought to be the reason for children having communication problems such as delayed speech and confusion between languages. According to other myths and misinterpretations being […]
How does aircraft noise affect our taste perception?
If you have been on an airplane before and ate food on board, or heard stories of airplane food from friends and family; a common theme seems to be that people complain that the food […]
How irrational is your phobia?
At the age of 12 I sat down to watch the first Final Destination film which my dad had loaned from the local library. This was possibly one of the greatest mistakes of my life; […]
What causes Brain Freeze?
Unfortunately for some, the excruciating moment when you guzzle spoonfuls of ice-cream in pure exhilaration only to suffer to agony of a brain-freeze is far too familiar. Brain freeze (or sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, if you prefer) […]
Jane Goodall: A lifetime in Science
Those of you unfamiliar with biology may not have heard of Jane Goodall but she has definitely left her mark upon science. In 1945, when Jane was 11, she decided that she wanted to work […]
The Rise of DNA discrimination
Testing someone’s DNA was originally a huge step forward in the eyes of the law; it allowed scientific prove that someone was responsible for a crime. DNA testing, or genetic fingerprinting, has now become synonymous […]