Abishek Elavarasan

Could jellyfish hold the key to immortality?

Have you ever felt like you could’ve done something in your life differently? If you could go back to when you were younger and do it all again, would you change the course of your future? I know I would! My main change would probably be to have actually done...
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Posted Aug. 5, 2025

Is every species capable of conscious thought?

I think that insects are cool. Every insect is uniquely adapted to the niche of its environment, yet they are also durable and adaptable. Despite all that, they aren’t on the same level of existence that humans or other intelligent creatures are. Or are they? For so long, we have...
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Posted Jul. 29, 2025

Blood Meridian: The story that can’t be adapted

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.” Based on the real-life Glanton Gang, the novel’s prose is unforgiving in its brazen descriptions of gore, genocidal killings, discrimination and child endangerment This is a quote from Blood Meridian, a story...
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Posted Jun. 9, 2025

International Women’s Day: six female trailblazers in STEM

To mark International Women’s Day, six of our writers celebrate women in the world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics that inspire them. Fionnghuala O’Reilly – Anna Bickerton Sharp, savvy and brilliantly articulate, Fionnghuala ‘Fig’ O’Reilly has made her mark in all things data science, media… and beauty pageantry? If...
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Posted Mar. 8, 2025