Nasa’s InSight lander has finally reached the surface of Mars
On the evening of the 26th November, NASA’s InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars. An explosion of cheers,high-fives and hugs erupted in theJet Propulsion Laboratory as…
Purple bacteria may be the key to sustainable waste management
When we speak about waste management, we mainly mean recycling waste such as paper or plastic and glass. In fact, many other things can be recycled, including wastewater. Current treatment…
Antibiotic resistance: the rapidly emerging global crisis
Antibiotic resistance is fast becoming a major new epidemic and a serious problem for many major health organisations around the world. This is an issue that has been getting steadily…
Disney’s New Streaming Service: What we know so far
The House of Mouse is getting bigger by the month. Adding extensions, breaking down walls and opening its doors to the public like never before, the company that has produced…
The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh is the first publication in a new series of crime-novel meets historical fiction, written by a husband-and-wife duo, Chris Brookmyre and Maisa Haetzman, under the…
Christmas Gift Guide: The Student’s recommendations
With Christmas creeping quickly round the corner and the whole city wrapped in tinsel and bright lights, it is usually the time we all surrender to bankruptcy and struggle to…
Bloody Hell: a discussion of PMS and what it really means
Premenstrual syndrome, commonly referred to as PMS, is the kind of thing that everyone should’ve been taught about in sex-ed but instead, we were given a couple of tampons and…
Isoc’s Rijah Sheikh on finding your feet in a new city
The cold was unexpected. Well if I’m being honest, I was told to expect the worst considering I was coming from Pakistan, a country that has boasted high temperatures of…