Carbon Neutral Futures Initiative explores radical ways to tackle climate change
Manpreet Kaur reports on the radical ideas being tested by the collaborative Carbon Neutral Futures Initiative to tackle climate change.
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Nature by numbers: The hidden beauty of mathematics
Manpreet Kaur reports on the beauty of numbers and patterns in nature.
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Understanding economics shouldn’t just be for economists
As a science student, politics and economics officially caught my interest during sixth form when I started working on my Extended Project Qualification. This interest then developed as I began to understand how important a role politics and economics play in ensuring that our laboratory findings become real policies that...
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Train your brain, change your habits
For me, the beginning of 2019 did not inspire resolutions of the academic, social or personal kind. My already-failed goal was to stop swearing this year. Personally, I see resorting to foul language as a sign of weakness rather than strength but I utterly failed at changing the habit. I...
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Warwick researchers use iridium to kill cancer cells
Manpreet Kaur reports on research from the University of Warwick which reveals iridium could be used as cancer therapy.
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Pricey books put consumers off reading
Finding it difficult to leave the bookshop once entered, ending up buying more books than planned and spending too much money on books are some of the slip-ups many bookworms may like to laugh about when discussing with others the adventures of reading. Books never spared me from this either...
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Trusting economists has never been harder
Economics, A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta discusses Trust in only the second chapter. Given that this book was my first introduction to the field and I did not know what to expect, I believe I may be forgiven for having questioned the worth of naming the entire chapter...
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The benefits of doing a reading challenge
With the end of another year, one of the things I feel very grateful for is the successful completion of my annual reading challenge. This is my first reading challenge I have finished in the history of my two years and around four months old love for reading. I exceeded...
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‘Coral IVF’ could help save the Great Barrier Reef
Manpreet Kaur reports on the use of ‘coral IVF’ to repair damage to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Facebook is no longer just a social media platform
Having used Facebook in the past, one thing that strikes me the most is how much of a planet of its own the platform is. Personally, I think what makes Facebook so popular is how it provides everything in one place, be it instant updates on what’s happening in the...
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Bionic mushrooms can generate electricity
Manpreet Kaur explores electricity-generating bionic mushrooms.
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Saving the environment will happen one crisp packet at a time
An individual’s initiative has led to Walkers declaring that people will be able to mail their crisps packets to a recycling company for free from December onwards. It all began with an online petition calling on Walkers and other crisps manufacturers to make their packaging recyclable or ideally non-plastic and...
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How to write the perfect sentence
Every writer has been through the agitation of not being able to write the perfect sentence. The desire to find the ‘right’ opening line, closing paragraph and the adjectives to describe events all have the power to keep even the best of authors up at night. To have experienced this...
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