Science

Could this innovation revolutionise solar energy? — Solar energy is currently leading the push for renewable energy, and it is easy to see why. Solar panels are easy to install, are dirt cheap and last for decades. But they aren’t without their drawbacks. To make a single panel takes a vast amount of energy, and in the…

The legendary scientists showed fulfilling support for each other — “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” During our time of preparing application materials for higher degrees, research positions, fellowships, jobs, etc we need our advisors and mentors to write good…

A new study estimates the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines — In the never-ending saga that is the Covid-19 pandemic, no subject is more contentious than vaccines. Partly that’s because vaccines have always been a contentious topic — the idea of making yourself a little bit sick now to stop you from getting a lot sick later has been debated since…

Scientists are finally taking UFOs seriously. — Grab your tinfoil hat, play the X-Files theme music, and start insisting that anything built in the Bronze Age was created by ancient aliens. That’s right — it’s time to talk about UFOs! But this time, it isn’t just going to be us amateurs arguing over what these obscure objects…

And the world will improve if we acknowledge this now — There is perhaps no better time than now to address the role of faith in our society. To do so is a controversial topic, as if religion were somehow above the realm of examination and questioning. And yet when events like the overturning of Roe v. Wade show how powerful…

Earth’s most precarious ecosystem could have a saviour. — It is easy to think that the frigid worlds of the Arctic and Antarctic are distant and isolated from our day-to-day lives. But in reality, they are deeply intertwined with every organism on the planet. So, the fact that climate change is already having a catastrophic impact on these crucial…