BT Art of Sport has chosen University of Surrey’s Lewis Elton Gallery and Surrey Sport’s Park to host the London 2012 exhibition of Olympic-inspired art as part of the Cultural Olympiad programme. June 2012 will open the doors to the exhibition displaying the art work of the BT Art of Sport project featuring painting, sculpture and photography produced by twelve prominent artists.Read more...
FEATURES»As one of the least sporty people in the world, I have no interest what so ever in taking part in some sort of sports event. I am so un-sporty that one of my friends only believed that I had cycled around Hyde Park after seeing photographic evidence.Read more...
SOCIETIES»When Ghostpoet came to GU2 Peanut Butter Jams and Melancholy Blues www.facebook.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...
ARTS»Daughn Gibson’s first solo album For example opener A Young Girl’s World The other stand out track is All the way through the album Daughn seems to be conjuring up the imagery of a broken Americana, perhaps taki...Read more...
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...
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...
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...
Republican Santorum attacks ‘morally objectionable’ science
Published 7th Mar 2012
Public opinion polls completed by Research!America have shown that 77% of Americans believe that the US is losing its international competitiveness in science and technology, while 91% think that research and development is vital to the economy. Santorum has taken a negative view towards science stating in a recent Colorado speech that climate change theories are “an absolute travesty of scientific research.Read more...
Microchip development could end need for self-injection
Published 7th Mar 2012
The first in-human clinical trial for a drug releasing microchip has successfully been completed. The trial, published in Science Translational Medicine, involved inserting the chip into the waists of women with osteoporosis and then activating it by remote control.Read more...