Science & EnvironmentS
Your Guide to the New Baby Animals at Edinburgh Zoo
Lots of new babies have been born at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS)’s Edinburgh Zoo over the last few months. This is fantastic news for wildlife conservation. Here’s a wee guide on the new arrivals!
Snoot the Giant Anteater Pup
Edinburgh Zoo’s giant anteater pup, Snoot, was born on the 5th of April to parents Gizmo and Zeferino. On the 10th of August, the zoo announced the gender, revealing him to be a little...
New Genomic Test Aims to Save Breast Cancer Patients from Chemotherapy
Every year in the United Kingdom, there are over 400,000 new cases of cancer, with more than 59,000 of...
Smart Glasses: Society’s Ally or Enemy?
Most people have heard of smart glasses, but how many know what they actually do?
When someone films with a...
High Luminosity, Low Funding: A Collision of Priorities
The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is soon to get a major...
Are Mental Health and Psychiatric Conditions Actually Better Classified as Immune-Gut Disorders?
For most of us, getting “butterflies” or even a stomachache before an important exam is nothing unusual, but what...
Helping Our Pollinators This Spring: Easy, student-friendly ways to support bees, butterflies, and biodiversity
Spring has sprung! The birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and the butterflies and bees are flying around. Pollinators...
We’ve had pain all wrong!
In English, ‘pain’ is simply ‘pain’. Whether we’re trying to describe the sharp sting of a paper cut, surgery,...
The Machine That Found What No One Was Looking For
Barbara felt completely fine. No lump. No pain. No nagging feeling that something could be wrong. So, like most...
Aberdeen 2040 Strategy and AUSA’s Climate Emergency: Aligning Campus Action with the University’s Sustainability Goals
Responsibility for climate change is often placed on individuals, while the systems shaping our choices remain the same.
Aberdeen University...
(Re)-Introducing Old-New Marsupials to the Modern World
The pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were dead to begin with. It’s incredibly important that we establish this...
GLP-1s: Miracle weight loss drugs or a tool to combat the global addiction crisis
Weight loss drugs have become increasingly popular in recent years for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes,...
The Animals We Lost in 2025
As we continue to transform our blue and green planet into a dreary collection of grey cities, biodiversity loss...
Groundbreaking Electronic Implant Restores Vision
Every six minutes, at least one person living in the UK will begin to lose their vision, according to...
Can AI predict the unpredictable?
By the time classic symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s appear, tremor, stiffness and slowness, up to 80% of...
Major Climate Tipping Point Reached as Rainforests Become Carbon Sources
Often referred to as the lungs of the earth, it is well known that rainforests are of great ecological...
Climate Calamity
“The apocalypse!” cried the UN chief and the ones before him. “Calamity,” “destruction,” and the “ultimate evil we must...
Could a Simple Blood Test Detect Alzheimer’s? The Biomarker Revolution Explained
What if a simple, quick and routine blood test could reveal the earliest signs of dementia years before symptoms...
Beyond Belief: How Menstrual Blood Is Challenging a History of Medical Injustice
For generations, women's pain has been systematically dismissed, often labelled as hysteria, emotion, or a simple low pain threshold....
Potential New Treatment for Asthma Discovered
by Simra Ahmad and Georgie Burns
Imagine having to fight just to take a breath. This is the reality for...
Conservation on Trial: Pshenichnov Behind Bars for Protecting Krill
With planet Earth barrelling towards an earlier than predicted mass extinction event, conservation science is more important than ever....
From Skin Cells to Babies: The Future of Human Reproduction
A significant step has just been taken towards creating human embryos from ordinary skin cells. When combined with recent...
Artificial Intelligence: A Weapon Against Antibiotic Resistance?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been at the forefront of technological debate since its invention. However, while the dangers and...
From Incurable to Manageable? The Promising New Discovery in Huntington’s Disease
For decades, a diagnosis of Huntington’s disease has meant facing unrelenting decline with no cure or successful treatment in...
Breakthroughs vs. Bottlenecks: The future of Parkinson’s and the NHS
Imagine waking up and realising that everyday tasks -such as walking across the room, remembering a name, or even...
Introducing AVATAR: NASA’s pioneering organ chip experiment
In early September 2025, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the launch of an innovative experiment called...