The Potato Paradox
Start with 100kg of potatoes consisting off 99% water, the potatoes dry out so that there is only 98%, how much do they weigh? The answer is not as simple as you think… Find...
Death and Taxes
Benjamin Franklin is attributed with saying “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Although intended as a comment on economics, it does mirror a fatalistic view of...
theGIST Reports: Travels in Lands that Don’t Exist, a Presentation by Professor Iain Stewart
The cliché response to any mention of geology in everyday conversation is, “Rocks and stuff right? Boring!” Unfortunately and unjustly, this is the prejudice and barrier that Professor Iain Stewart must combat constantly as...
Down-sizing to upgrade: How nanomedicine might, eventually, revolutionise cancer treatment
Nanocarriers, often referred to as ‘nanoballoons’ or ‘nanobubbles’, have long been considered the next big thing in cancer treatment. Yet they haven’t delivered the revolutionising results scientists and doctors have hoped for – perhaps...
Impulsive Animals
When trying to understand where a certain feature of the human brain has emerged from in evolutionary terms, we often turn to other species in the animal kingdom to investigate it further. In a...
Operation on the Open Genome
What can genetic modification do for our health? Michaela Mrschtik examines how a novel DNA cutting tool paves the way for futuristic treatments of currently incurable diseases. New ‘DNA scissors’, called CRISPR/Cas or simply...
Modular Smartphones Have the Potential to Cut Electronic Waste
Towards the end of the last decade, recycling of electronic waste in the United States of America stood at a pitiful 13.6% . Out of 2.8 million tonnes of waste, that accounted for just...
Transpoosions: The World Of Poo Transplants
Doctors, researchers and hospital bureaucrats have long sought a wonder drug; a cheap, readily available treatment for a multitude of conditions. It turns out that such a thing might just exist, and that it...
