TEDx GU Aftermath
As promised, in the beginning of the month we attended the 2015 TEDxUniversityofGlasgow conference – how could we have missed it, with so many inspiring ideas to be spread? We stepped in expecting outstanding...
Category: Features
‘Potential Difference’, an exhibition about Women in Science
I’m a PhD student in Biology at the University of Edinburgh and I’m really enjoying it, so I’d like to stay in academia. However, it appears to be harder for women to stay in...
Mitochondrial donation – prevention for mitochondrial diseases
A change in UK law will soon allow Mitochondrial Donation – Michaela Mrschtik discusses the background of the technique that could change the lives of families affected by mitochondrial disease.
Power Up Your Ideas Factory with Edinburgh International Science Festival
In 2015 Edinburgh International Science Festival transforms into The Ideas Factory – a hub for information, ideas and innovation. Audiences are invited to get their thinking caps on as big ideas transform the halls,...
The Evolution of Nanotechnology
In 1959, Nobel Prize winning physicist Professor Richard Feynman gave a lecture titled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”. In this lecture he outlined the possibility for a new scientific field, which we have come to know as “nanotechnology”.
theGIST at #TEDxGU
You probably already know how much we love going out and reporting on everything science and tech-y happening in Glasgow and its surroundings. This weekend is no exception: we will be out and about...
Pastry sheds new light on mass extinction
What does a cream crown have in common with the Great Dying, also known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event? It might surprise you to know that there is any commonality between them at all. However, a very crucial one is the focus of a paper recently published in Geology: vanilla.
Become a Podcaster or YouTuber, 24 Feb 18:00
Time: 18:00 Date: 24 February 2015 Location: The Lounge, Level 6, Strathclyde Union Ever wanted to talk about science/technology on a podcast, or in a video? Ever wanted to interview leading researchers, and ask...
