Gaining insight into interiors of black holes, subtleties of the quantum realm, the Big Bang pushes us beyond the reach of experimentation. To get their hands to work, physicists turned to easily manipulable “analogue” systems governed by similar equations. In 2016, a physicist created a sonic black hole by making a fluid to trap sound…
Sponsored Earlier this year, International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox and Education Secretary, Damian Hinds announced the Government’s ambition to increase the number of international students choosing to complete higher education in the UK by 30%, to 600,000 per annum by 2030. Oxford Royale Academy (ORA), a leading provider of summer schools at Oxford and Cambridge…
Regardless of how advanced our AI algorithms are, they have to be trained by humans in order to be smart. For an algorithm to accurately recognize an apple is an apple, it needs to be taught with thousands to millions of pictures of apples. Some algorithms even have to be trained in culturally specific ways….
Ligaments, tendons and other musculoskeletal soft issues not only are differentiated by their cellular and extra-cellular constituents, but also the organization of these constituents. While we are able to create medical products through printing living cells, the technology in engineering tissues for common injuries is yet to be around. “One challenge has been organizing the…
We all know how the story goes for quantum computing: A qubit (short for a quantum bit), unlike classical bits, can be at the state of 0 and 1 simultaneously. The superposition of states offers quantum computers the superior computational power over traditional supercomputers. Its unprecedented efficiency for tasks like factoring, database-searching, simulation, or code-breaking…
by Ben Bradley, Year 12, Reigate College, Surrey. “The good thing about science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it”- Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and science communicator. But in the age of fake news, since when has the truth been important? Despite consensus throughout the scientific community on the threat of…
by Isabella Kwiecinski, Year 12, Lady Margaret School, London. Growing up when I thought of the future I thought of holograms and flying cars. To me that was how science was going to progress in the future and in my eyes I was soon going to be taken to school in some form of spacecraft….
by Juliet Anderson, Year 12 Reigate Grammar School, Surrey. In 2016, according to FAO statistics, a staggering 815 million people (10.7% of the world’s population) suffered from chronic undernourishment; the two main forms being protein-energy malnutrition (lacking proteins and calories necessary for growth) and micronutrient deficiency (lacking vitamins/minerals). There is enough food on the planet…
by Patrick Brown, Year 12, Merchant Taylors’ School Northwood, Middlesex. Seventeen million people were diagnosed with cancer in 2018. It is a major killer, caused by the accumulation of mutations in DNA. Billions of pounds have been invested into cancer research and cancer treatments, but the complexity of cancer and its variations has meant that…
by Larissa Chan, Year 10, Cheltenham Ladies College, Gloucestershire. How can you rock climb again, after losing a leg? Jim Ewing fell fifteen metres during a climbing accident in the Cayman Islands, and he asked himself the same question. The answer to this is the agonist-antagonist myoneural interface (AMI), a method invented by researchers in…
