Limits to collaboration?
Miruna investigates how the need to conform can push us beyond the limits of collaboration
Category: Features
The Cleaning Revolution: How does this new wave of ultra-cleanliness affect our health?
What on earth do viral Instagram cleanliness gurus have to do with the increase in allergies? Emily May Armstrong finds out.
Catching Cancer: The Viruses that Transform Cells into Tumours
Ailish explores oncoviruses, the group of silent pathogenic invaders whose cellular disruption has led them to become a leading cause of human cancers worldwide.
Autonomic for The People
Does our love for sci-fi and convenience mean we’re headed for a future of robot domination? Audrey discusses our human-robot interaction, our love of robotic sidekicks and innovations in robot technology.
Embryo Gene Editing: Changing Life As We Know It
Sonya explores the field of embryo gene editing which
recently entered unexplored territory with a scientist’s
claim of creating the world’s first genetically edited babies.
Exploiting the Ecological Arms Race
Liam Rooney and Rebecca McHugh discuss the lesser known side of microbial co-operation and competition and how we can exploit this for our own benefit.
No ‘I’ in Molecule: the Chemical Teamwork behind the Origin of Life
Somewhere on Earth, about 4 billion years ago, the first terrestrial life began to develop – probably from a complicated soup of simple molecules. But how did the transition from basic building blocks to the complex biopolymers in living organisms occur?
The changing face of research: from competition to collaboration
Academia is stereotyped as a boxing ring, with researchers in constant competition; is this competition sometimes beneficial in driving innovation? Or should we shift toward a more collaborative environment to further scientific discovery?
