Stress is Cool
In our first ever documentary, theGIST investigates how researchers at the University of Glasgow are making the science of stress less stressful.
T-VEC Virus Found to be Effective Treatment for Malignant Melanoma
Scientists were able to cure patients of skin cancer with a genetically modified virus, making it the first successful virus-based treatment in a phase three trial. Malignant melanoma is the most dangerous form of...
Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘The Value of Suffering’
For the first time, Glasgow Science Festival has worked in partnership with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow to bring us ‘The Value of Suffering’. Suffering is defined as the state...
Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘Single-Pixel Camera’
The single-pixel camera – in what way is it a step forward from cameras with millions of pixels? Would you want it in your next smartphone? Scientists from the University of Glasgow’s Optics group...
Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘In the Footsteps of Eddington: Proving Einstein Right with a Solar Eclipse’
2015 is the International Year of Light, but it is also the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity; a theory that has resolutely stood the test of time and still provides us...
Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘Café Sci: Looking for Light’
“What do fiction and science have in common? An evening of musing by Pippa Goldschmidt and Professor Martin Hendry.” At Mono on Wednesday evening, Café Scientifique hosted Pippa Goldschmidt, acclaimed author and ex-astronomer, and...
Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘Moon’
Two astronomers and a clinical psychologist walk into a cinema… Glasgow Film Theatre was the venue for a special Glasgow Science Festival screening of Duncan Jones’ 2009 sci-fi film Moon, where protagonist Sam Bell...
The ‘Coldest Case on Record’: The First Human Murder
Ida Emilie Steinmark takes a close-up look at a broken skull and dives down into the dark, deep human past.
