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...
Category: Physical Sciences
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.
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.
Is There Anybody Out There?
Game changing discovery in the search for extra-terrestrial life – could Earth’s life-sustaining conditions also exist on nearby planet Proxima b?
The Glaring Menace of Future Solar Eruptions
Richard Murchie explores how the sun’s erratic nature puts modern society at risk – could an eruption on the sun’s surface cause major electrical failure on Earth?
Nanotechnology behind the evolution of iPhone
How could the iPhone become thinner, lighter but stronger year after year?
The Wasting of Nuclear Waste- Challenging the Status Quo
Nuclear waste remains one of the most controversial areas in an even more controversial topic, but by investigating the nature of the waste, John Lindberg shows the immense potential hidden in plain sight.
Brexit Brain Drain
Gabriela De Sousa discusses why leaving the EU might lead to funding devastation and researchers abandoning ship
