A new video has been launched by the University of Surrey to help men suffering from prostate cancer. The film, titled ‘Getting Down to Coping’, is intended to accompany a self management program for cancer sufferers.Read more...
FEATURES»What makes Britain British? Our national identity is in flux. With a country so racially, culturally, religiously and ideologically diverse, is there any one way to define being British? There are the obvious answers of living here or being born here, but these don’t really define a national identity in any way.Read more...
SOCIETIES»Imagine its Sunday. You’re loafing about the house, cup of tea in one hand, digestives in the other.Read more...
SCIENCE & TECH»There is no doubt that the hologram of the late Tupac was very emotive and has clearly captured the imaginations of attending fans. It is tempting to "get my geek on" and explain how the performance works, but in all honesty, it's not that complicated and other writers have already done an excellent job of this.Read more...
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SPORTS»With deadlines looming, and exams slowly but surely creeping their way in, it’s very easy to forget what the summer season is actually about. However! Help is at hand with the very first ‘Social Sports Month’, which will be kicking off this May with a variety of different events, not least of all ‘Society Sport’s Day’ which will see societies across campus going head to head in a series of events on the 16th of this month.Read more...
OPINION & ANALYSIS»A very interesting year is drawing to a close – the public started to assert its authority over the ongoing economic crisis, titans fell (from Steve Jobs, to Col. Gaddafi) and News International looked extremely bad indeed.Read more...
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Wireless charging
Published 1st May 2012
In September 1882, Thomas Edison turned on his first power station, supplying 110 volts of direct current to 59 customers in Manhattan. Jump forward 130 years and we now see humanity approaching the advent of a new way of powering our technology.Read more...
Whoever said DNA was an exclusive?
Published 1st May 2012
If you thought that DNA or its sister molecule, RNA, were the only means of storing genetic information-think again! A team of researchers at Cambridge University have successfully created synthetic alternatives called xeno-nucleic acids (XNAs) which can not only store genetic information- but are almost as capable of evolving. Picture it: a spiralling ladder-with each step a sugar bound to a molecule in the middle called a base (one to each sugar) and you have envisaged the very basic structure of DNA.Read more...
Holograms!
Published 1st May 2012
There is no doubt that the hologram of the late Tupac was very emotive and has clearly captured the imaginations of attending fans. It is tempting to "get my geek on" and explain how the performance works, but in all honesty, it's not that complicated and other writers have already done an excellent job of this.Read more...
Europe’s New Flagship
Published 1st May 2012
It’s not every day that you get to sit down and decide how to spend just short of a billion Euros. However, in early May, member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) will vote on which of the proposed missions ESA will implement.Read more...
Biologically, research says, we are ‘non-monogamous’
Published 1st May 2012
The majority of people, who read this research, will generally dismiss it due to its contradiction to social norms. So while reading, put those pre-judgments aside for a few minutes and think.Read more...
Jailbreak apps respect you more than Apple?
Published 14th Mar 2012
It is true that those who access jailbreak apps tend to be more tech-savvy; so is Apple exploiting their wider market base? Are standard customers of shiny Apple products happy with Apple invading their privacy? ...Read more...
Your Kitchen Appliances will soon be able to communicate…
Published 14th Mar 2012
eople will be able to log what food items are in the fridge, get recipe suggestions and then the kitchen will turn itself on; picking the correct temperatures and timings to suit the dish. Look out Chitty Ch ...Read more...
Who finished the pi?
Published 13th Mar 2012
Until now. In February of this year, a team of Yale University mathematicians published a groundbreaking research paper detailing their most recent findings.Read more...
Sun storms and your health
Published 13th Mar 2012
This week saw sun storms reach our headlines in a big way. Worries about our power and navigation networks chief amongst them; but what about the effects on our health? Roughly every 11 years the sun goes through a great increase in solar activity resulting in huge amounts of high energy radiation being spewed out into the solar system and towards earth, aka solar flares or sun sneezes.Read more...
New type of defence dog – with porcupine spikes
Published 13th Mar 2012
Scientists took German shepherd embryos and then used a genetic model of a porcupine to modify the dogs’ genetics so they encoded for spikes. The spikes work in a similar way to those on a porcupine - when the dog gets angry or scared it raises them in an attempt to look more threatening in order to scare off the threat.Read more...