Opinion Series: Mental Health in STEM
The Oxford Scientist is starting a new series of Opinion pieces to discuss in depth some of the mental health challenges in academia.
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The great future innovations of small-scale science
Manaal Khan describes the potential future of medicine, electronics, and industry in the face of new small-scale science and nanotechnology.
Making our hearts sing
Catherine James argues that science needs the humanities to add value, meaning and rigour to its discoveries and societal impact.
ChatGPT: A milestone in natural language processing
OpenAI’s language model ChatGPT describes itself, how it was created, and its significance in the field of natural language processing and AI.
To what extent is Art important to scientists?
Maya Shah is the School Competition’s Year 12-13 category winner, and discusses whether or not art is important to scientists.
The Future of Science is Like Rice on a Chess Board
Hemlata Pant is the Schools Competition Year 10-11 category winner, and discusses the exponential growth of scientific knowledge.
Frankenstein: A monster who saved lives
Mridul Shrestha discusses the relationship between science and science fiction, taking the example of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
In search of a cure to insomnia
Nearly 20% of people suffer from insomnia, and yet the drugs to treat it are often not effective. Yexuan Zhu discusses new research on the the best treatments for insomnia and future approaches to helping people sleep better.
Does the discovery of a ‘chronic pain gene’ solve the complexities of treating the disease?
Chronic pain diseases continue to cause distress worldwide and are now the leading cause of disability. Benjamin Fisher discusses why we can experience chronic pain, how it is researched and new findings that provide a source of hope for chronic pain sufferers.
The Oxford Scientist Trinity Term 2022: NETWORKS
Everything around us is constantly interacting. We spend most of our lives connecting with others, exchanging words or thoughts, conveying pieces of
ourselves and our experiences. Our social networks and relationships define us to the extent that we become increasingly more similar to the people we interact
with.