Why the Pentagon Continues to Pester Mathematicians
An insight into the puzzling case of the pentagon, and how it all fits together.
Category: Features
The Cupid Called Brain
Love and heartbreak — just chemicals? Alisha Aman explores the biology of falling in and out of love, and how it serves an evolutionary purpose.
Devils’ Fight Club: Evolution vs. Cancer
Nope, this is not a Pokémon Go match we’re talking about: a new study shows that Tasmanian devils are evolving new ways to fight a deadly cancer.
The Future from Our Past: Molecular Fossils & Climate Change
Climate scientists are unravelling the past so they can predict future climate change: An insight into the work climate scientists are doing in the BECS laboratory at the University of Glasgow.
Can Neutrino Oscillation Explain the Universe?
Patrik Hallsjo discusses why matter particles outnumber antimatter particles in the universe, and how we use neutrino oscillations to help explain this.
Man Vs Maths and a Ship Filled with Gold
It’s 3 September 1857. The SS Central America has just set sail from the port of Colón in Panama after a brief stay and is on its way to New York City. The ship...
A New Dawn
On the one year anniversary of the detection of gravitational waves, we bring you this year’s winning Science Writing Competition piece by Daniel Williams on what it was like being in the University of Glasgow’s physics department when the discovery was made.
Epigenetic Engineering — The Next Generation of Gene Editing
Laura Turpeinen casts light on the state of the art of CRISPR-Cas9 epigenetic editing and evaluates its potential for gene therapy.
