Cracking the Covid code
Meet an Edinburgh PhD candidate tracking the pandemic’s mutations… A group of students at the University of Edinburgh are in the vanguard of the microscopic war against Covid-19, trying to…
Scottish independence would lead to “uncertainty for students”, claim opposition
Scottish independence would would bring academic and career uncertainty for students in Scotland according to both main opposition parties, in answer to claims by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster leader,…
Interview with SNP MP Ian Blackford
Scottish independence would put right a great harm done to students in the country by Brexit, the Scottish National Party’s leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford MP has told The Student…
Meet Edinburgh’s alien-hunting professor
He’s a serious scientist: a professor, who give lectures dressed as an alien. He’s lived in the most extreme places on earth, the driest and the coldest, to study how…
Interview with the Governor of Edinburgh Castle
There is a lot of talk right now about what it means to be Scottish in the 21st Century, as the independence debate grinds on. One man, the Queen’s man…
Lemonade Think Bubble
It was another dull quarantine day until I sipped my glass of lemonade. April sun streamed through it and cast a bright pattern across the desk. Lounging about the house…
Student doctors join the fight against COVID-19
More than 200 Edinburgh medical graduates have answered the call to fight COVID-19 and left their degree courses early to work in hospitals all over the country. The new doctors…