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.
Category: Features
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.
Science Slam IV — Thinking Outside the Tesseract
The fourth annual Science Slam took place on the 14th of July 2016 at the Cottier Theatre in Hyndland. Our roving reporter, Rebecca McHugh, was on hand to take in the wide variety of subjects these seven PhD students were speaking on.
Wait and See: A New Approach for Making a Champion
For many years sporting organisations have recruited children and forced them to specialise in a specific sport. In this article, Christian C Nyberg investigates evidence on why organisations should hold off before pigeonholing an athlete.
Malleable Memory
Kaitlyn Hair questions how much we can truly trust our own memories and considers the exciting new therapeutic potential that our flexible memories may unlock
Can We Give Biotech the Green Light?
Nina Divorty delves into the debate around genetic engineering and its effects on the environment following a Glasgow Café Scientifique discussion at the Tron theatre.
