Cultured Meat – a low carbon alternative?
Cultured meat, also commonly known as lab-grown meat, clean meat or synthetic meat, refers to any meat produced by animal cell cultures…
Prime Numbers in Nature: Cyclical Cicadas
To many, the prime numbers are a foreign and useless concept conjured up in the laboratories of decrepit mathematicians, having…
Lorentz National Park
Abstract Indonesia has the third largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world, swathing 17,500 islands in the Malay Archipelago…
The marathon limit: just how fast can we go?
On the 12th of October 2019, a mark that was once seen as impossible was broken by Eliud Kipchoge. Crossing the…
Exploring the Indo-Australian Archipelago: The Wallace Line
Image credits: Journal of Biogeography, December 2019 Abstract Indonesia has the third largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world,…
Why are some alleles really dominant?
When learning about genetic crosses and the utility of Punnett squares, we benefit from the fact that some alleles are dominant,…
3D Printing Organs
A shortage of organs represents a huge current major health crisis. We currently have an ageing population, and as we…
Colonising Mars – Multi-planetary Life
Throughout history, human curiosity has managed to propel our species from an insignificant band of apes to the dominant life…
Antibiotics: From Saviour to Traitor
Prior to the beginning of the twentieth century, disease ravaged the world. Even in industrialized countries, it remained a nightmare….
“It’s nanotech; do you like it?”
Credits for cover image: screenrant.com Nanotechnology. What is it? What can it do? One of the coolest scenes in the…