Wind farms are killing thousands of bats every year
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…
The Glasgow fix rooms: a shift in attitude towards addiction?
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…
Can language rewire the way we think?
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…
HypED and Hyperloop: more than just a pipedream?
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…