Just theGIST – Batteries and Nanodots
Have you ever been about to leave your home when you realise that your phone’s battery is dead? If only you could charge it back up in a matter of seconds. Well perhaps soon...
The Brain Fog Behind Brain Fag: Mental Health Across the Globe
As a student, this picture may seem familiar: crouched over your coursework, you are struggling to concentrate on anything other than Facebook, never mind make sense of those scribbly black lines that you have...
Hitting the Bottle: Stress and Alcohol Craving
Most of us are familiar with the feeling: craving a cold beer after a stressful week at work, or hot-footing it to the bar for a Pimm’s straight after the last exam of the...
Part 4: The Current State of Bitcoin and its Future
This article is part of a GIST series on Bitcoin. In part 1, we described the mathematics that underpins digital currencies like Bitcoin as well as the security of the web itself. In part...
New Cloaking Device Could Hide Future Buildings from Earthquakes
Usually if a building needs to withstand an earthquake, architects and engineers find ways to safely absorb its energy, for example, by building shock absorbers into the foundations. However, scientists at the Institut Fresnel...
You look like you need a nap, Grandma!
Do you often feel sleepy by 10 in the morning? Are you reading this right now and stifling a yawn, even though this is only the second sentence? Well, I’m afraid it’s only about...
Part 3: The Self-Regulation of the Bitcoin Network
This article is part of a GIST series on Bitcoin. In part 1, we described the mathematics that underpins digital currencies like Bitcoin, as well as the security of the web itself. In part...
Obesity Weighing Down Your Grades?
We all know that childhood obesity can have a negative effect upon the health of children, but new research completed at the University of Strathclyde (in collaboration with the Universities of Dundee, Georgia and Bristol) has...
