How dunes provide insight into Earth’s past and extra-terrestrial climates
Maike Nowatzki discusses how dune formation and morphology provide insight into the past, as well as extra-terrestrial conditions.
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The promises of personalised nutrition: What is the science behind ZOE?
Izzy Rycroft explores personalised nutrition devices, namely, ZOE that focuses on bodily responses to food, not calories.
The quantum pursuit to perceive
Ayaka Hogg explores the disputed argument that quantum mechanics determines our perception of the environment.
New wave medicine: The clinical potential of non-hallucinogenic “designer psychedelics”
Sofia Luchanskaya discusses the clinical potential of psychedelics in treating mood and addiction disorders.
Finding the way with waves
Elyse Airey delves into the sound driven world of navigation and how disruption to sound patterns can affect species.
Wavescape or no-escape? How humans are influencing marine bioacoustics
Ushika Kidd explores the underwater sound realm, and how anthropogenic noise is threatening marine ecosystems.
The mind wanders, but the brain waves
Jasmin Patel discusses brain waves, specifically the disputed use of low frequency waves in defining consciousness.
All vibrations great and small
Tariq Saeed explores the ubiquitous use of vibrations in the animal kingdom, from communicating to selecting food.
Science’s atlas of the human brain
Charles Jenner explores recent publications in Science that are aiming to discern the neuron geography of the brain.
The little-known risk of cosmic radiation in air travel
Olivia Allen and Enis Gerxhalija discuss cosmic radiation exposure as an occupational risk faced by cabin crew.