by Arushika Aggarwal, Year 12, The Tiffin Girls’ School, Surrey. Being born and brought up in an Indian household, chillies have always been an essential ingredient in our daily meals. It just so happens that the chilli pepper has a fascinating evolution behind it, and the way it reacts with our bodies to allow us…
by Tamilore Awosile, Year 13, The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Hertfordshire. I was born with sickle cell anaemia, a genetically inherited blood disorder which affects approximately 4.4 million people worldwide. In the UK, it is particularly prevalent in people of African or Caribbean heritage. Sickle cell is caused by a mutation in the DNA of…
by Ashley Kabue, Year 12, Bablake School, West Midlands. Often viewed as a mundane writing utensil used primarily by young children and artists, pencils are a highly underappreciated tool. For hundreds of years, they have enabled students and scientists alike to record discoveries, quickly note their observations, and most importantly, erase their mistakes. However, they…
by Sophia Leipnitz, Year 12, Nonsuch High School for Girls, Surrey. One way in which science impacts my everyday life is the use of mirrors—which we can spend hours a day in front of. In fact, a study conducted in 2016 found that Italians spend the most time in front of a mirror per day….
by Clarissa Pereira, Year 12, The Tiffin Girls’ School, Middlesex. We all have our little morning rituals. I, for one, greet the day by performing a series of complex chemical reactions – and so do you. I am, of course, referring to the Maillard Reaction which takes place in practically every kitchen and café throughout…
by Emily Pentil, Year 11, Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, Buckinghamshire. In 1957, one second was defined as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two energy levels of the caesium atom. Physics so esoteric seems unlikely to feature in an essay about the science of everyday life. But the idea of…
by Diyaco Shwany, Year 11, King Ecgbert School, Sheffield. Many people around the world do not know the significance, impacts and importance of science in everyday life. Almost every product we use in our life is developed through the knowledge of scientific discovery that even includes some of the foods we eat. Let’s take a…
by Amrutha Vudathu, Year 11, Michaela Community School, Brent. As the lights dimmed, soft mutters around me began to disappear. Dancers dressed in vivid colours rushed onto the brightly lit stage, smiling cheerily. Heads in the audience turned to face away from their conversations to see the stage, when suddenly- ‘Right arm, throw yourself into…
by Haeun Kim, Year 10, Nonsuch High School for Girls, Surrey. After falling over and grazing your knee in Netball practice at school, you then burn your finger whilst cooking in Food Tech. Then the top of your nose starts to peel off in the intense glaring of the sun in the hot summer’s day….
Atreyi Chakrabarty (St. Cross College, DPhil in Interdisciplinary Bioscience) in conversation with Professor Dorothy Bishop (Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford) More and more scientists are starting to doubt the nature of their own playing field. Their colleagues’ studies published in acclaimed journals, but the key findings mysteriously never seem to materialise when others try to…
