Wind turbines could be killing tens of thousands of bats a year, a new study has found. Scientists think that bats may turn their sonar off at large heights because they do not expect to run into anything. Currently, there are some wind turbines in the UK taller than London’s tallest buildings. Researchers from the […]
Glasgow City Joint Integration Board has approved a plan for ‘fix rooms’, which would, in principle, provide medical-grade heroin for drug users to inject in supervised hospital rooms. Glasgow has some of the worst rates of heroin addiction in Scotland, with around 5,500 injecting drug users, up to 500 of whom inject in public places. […]
Denis Villeneuve’s science fiction movie, Arrival, explores the possibilities of the long-standing and controversial theory that language shapes the way you think. When an alien spaceship lands on Earth, a top linguist is sent in to ask what the aliens want. The aliens use a non-linear language structure and perceive time differently to humans. As […]
On Thursday evening, University of Edinburgh students presented a model for a Hyperloop in the United Kingdom that could make 300 metres per second travel a reality. Imagine it is a Sunday night. You have had a boozy weekend in London and you have missed the last Megabus back to Edinburgh. But never fear! Luckily […]