Why You Shouldn’t Burn Your Toast
Derek Connor explores the world of chemistry taking place in your kitchen every time you cook a meal and looks at why it may be better to take your food out the oven a little sooner than you may normally.
Quantum Cryptography – The future of security
With it becoming apparent in the last few years how easy it is for individuals and organisations to break in to your data, Aidan McFadden discusses the problems we face with encryption today and how quantum cryptography is the best hope we have.
Vampire Squid: Not a New B-movie Monster
The visage of the mysterious vampire squid evokes a certain kind of menace that few other animals can but what is it exactly?
Chimpanzee Culture
Chimpanzees display culturally-learned behaviours, such as tool use. But what’s the purpose of a mysterious, almost ritualistic, behaviour involving trees and stones?
Caring for Bacteria in Intensive Care Patients
Compared to healthy people, patients in Intensive Care Units have drastically different gut bacteria – leaving them vulnerable to serious infection and even death.
Shrimp Fight Club: Wasteful or Lifesaving?
Research on the mantis shrimp was initially scoffed at but quickly gained respect — why did people change their minds so quickly?
Why the Pentagon Continues to Pester Mathematicians
An insight into the puzzling case of the pentagon, and how it all fits together.
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.
