30 April 2018

THE SMALL THINGS IN (SOIL) LIFE

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Imagine for a moment that you’re a plant. Each day your leaves harvest energy from sunlight to make sugars. What do you chose to do with th...

WHAT LURKS IN THE COLD AND DARK?

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Antarctica; the coldest continent on Earth. During summer the land is bathed in hours of sunlight, in winter you’d be lucky to see the sun ...

“IT’S NOT A PHASE, MUM!” – DINOSAURS AREN’T JUST FOR LITTLE KIDS

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“It’s not a phase, mum!” She screamed in agony, throwing her plush ceratosaurus to the ground with a Tyrannosaurus-level groan of anguis...
27 April 2018

PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS: THE BABY JACK-JACK OF THE HUMAN BODY

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At the end of the movie Incredibles, baby Jack-Jack (while thought to have been a normal baby with no powers) with the right motivation is ...

OF RICE AND MEN: CHINA’S NEW SALT-RESISTANCE STAPLE CROP

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Long before the Pharaohs of Egypt, the farmers of the Far East have cultivated rice, a crop which can produce nearly double the calories of...
24 April 2018

PERSONALISED MEDICINE USING VIRUSES, AND THE BIO-HACKER WHO JUST WANTS A SLICE OF PIZZA

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[1] Some of the most extraordinary innovations in recent years have been advances in personalised medicine. Every individual is unique in...
06 April 2018

BABS STUDENT COMPETITION: MICRO-JOURNALISM

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BABSOC is hosting a science journalism competition! This is your chance to write about your passion in Science, whether it’s somethin...