Symbiogenesis: an Evolutionary Accident (that Reshaped Life on Earth Forever)
By delving in the history of our Earth’s evolution, Max Walk explores the three domains of life, and how symbiogenesis was a remarkable...
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SATNAVmagazine
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Phineas and Friends: Three mysterious medical accidents that are still perplexing to this day
Vinny Vince examines the peculiar nature of a selection of bizarre medical cases, and the way in which their intrigue has captured and...
SATNAVmagazine
- Sep 19, 2022
- 3 min
The Swiss Scientist who ‘Tripped’ up: The discovery of LSD and where we are now
Emily Adams explores the fascinating evolution of the narrative and perspectives on psychedelic drugs. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)...
SATNAVmagazine
- Sep 19, 2022
- 4 min
At The Heart Of A Tragedy: How the Bristol Heart Scandal Transformed Modern Medicine
Sam Lee explores how one hospital’s malpractice sparked a nationwide conversation about the importance of ethics in the NHS, and led to a...
SATNAVmagazine
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Why is Everything Evolving into Crabs? - The Bizarre Phenomena of Carcinisation
Ellen Foster discusses the incredible, peculiar, and confounding phenomenon of carcinisation. Okay, maybe not everything is evolving into...
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
Is DNA the Next Big Thing in Digital Data Storage?
Katie Fegan discusses the future of digital data storage in a fast-growing world, and the crucial role DNA could play in securing this....
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
Same Brain, New Ideas
Anna Dalmasso explores the possibilities underlying scientific thought and discovery through a neuroscientific lens Over 1.2 trillion...
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
Ageing, Alzheimer's and Immprtality: Should Scientists be Working to Increase Lifespan?
Emily Adams explores the ethics and intricaces of the ageing process, and if at all we should even be considering tampering with our...
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
To Mend a Broken Heart: The Past, Present, and Future of Heart Failure
Sam Lee offers an informative guide to pioneering advancements in the treatment of heart failure. What is Heart Failure? Heart failure...
SATNAVmagazine
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
Night-time in colour - the extraordinary vision of nocturnal animals
From hawkmoths to geckos, Adam Manning investigates the science behind colour night vision
SATNAVmagazine
- Jun 6, 2021
- 3 min
Dark ecology: a view of nature not 'saved' by science
Lara Williams dissects the theory of dark ecology and how scientists consider the impact of human interference when fixing ecological crises
SATNAVmagazine
- Jun 6, 2021
- 3 min
Living in a microbial world
Sarah Lloyd examines the importance of bacteria in the origin of life
SATNAVmagazine
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
Golden Rice: a biotechnology 20 years in the making
Sarah Lloyd explores the turbulent history of the genetically modified rice that promised to curb Vitamin A deficiency. ‘A humanitarian...
SATNAVmagazine
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
The development of anaesthesia - but at what cost?
Adam Manning uncovers the dark history of general anaesthesia in surgery. Surgery is a common, not always wanted, 21st century medical...
SATNAVmagazine
- Feb 1, 2021
- 4 min
Climate-smart agriculture: the solution to a second green evolution?
Tamsyn Dawson looks to the Green Revolution of the 1960s to evaluate the impact of new agricultural revolutions in response to climate...
SATNAVmagazine
- Feb 1, 2021
- 4 min
Frontiers of Sustainable Energy Integration
Callum Peverell explores breakthrough projects within sustainable energy. Global perception of the energy industry is changing. Oil...
SATNAVmagazine
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
The future of fashion: Are bioengineered materials the next big trend?
Rain Speake discusses biomaterials start-ups that are utilising synthetic biology to develop sustainable materials for the fashion...
SATNAVmagazine
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
Want to turn up the heat on cancer? Go for Gold
Katie Fegan dives into the science behind gold nanoparticles for photothermal cancer therapy. Just like Goldilocks, cancer cells are...
SATNAVmagazine
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
Getting to the heart of the matter
Sam Lee highlights how advances in fluorescence microscopy are aiding in the fight against heart attacks. Diseases affecting the heart...
SATNAVmagazine
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
An Ecological Breakthrough in the Heart of Birmingham
Daisy Cave discusses the recent return of otters to Birmingham’s waterways Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) are arguably amongst the West...
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 23, 2020
- 3 min
Colonialism and communicable diseases
Sophie Byrne examines the effects of engineered waterways on public health crises Waterways provide ample breeding grounds for...
SATNAVmagazine
- Nov 30, 2020
- 3 min
COVID-19: Parallels with past pandemics
Sarah Lloyd compares the COVID-19 pandemic with other notorious pandemics from across history. Is it possible to think of COVID-19 and...
SATNAVmagazine
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
BioSoc Careers Conference Series: Communicated, international, and interdisciplinary science
Mia Wroe covers BioSoc’s second Careers Conference, where Dr Steve Unwin discusses how great ape conservation can provide a template for...
SATNAVmagazine
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
COVID-19 and brain styles, a catalyst for poor mental health
Lara Williams explains how our underlying brain circuitry may shape our mental health response during the COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 is...
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2019
- 3 min
Old wives’ tales
Abigail Joyce explores medical myths and misconceptions, and what happens when they go from harmless to harmful...
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2019
- 3 min
Society’s cosmetic science obsession: aesthetic medicine and injectables
Demi Ball asks, do we really know what doctors are putting into our bodies?
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2019
- 3 min
Wading through the linguistic soup of the ‘Hedgerow Regulations 1997’
Daisy Cave exposes an overlooked biodiversity scandal
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2019
- 3 min
How I learned to stop worrying by studying the kinesin protein
Charlotte Tomlinson explores how we can decipher meaning from life through the study of kinesin and the Myth of Sisyphus
SATNAVmagazine
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
Aliens on Earth: the mystery of the tardigrade
Courtney Kousser considers whether tardigrade physiology could signal the existence of extra-terrestrial life
SATNAVmagazine
- Apr 1, 2019
- 2 min
A lesson in sustainability from India's sacred groves
Joanna Chustecki advocates ancient practices, from a bygone world, in conserving natural resources
SATNAVmagazine
- Apr 1, 2019
- 2 min
Health vs. disease: when mutations take hold
Bhavini Chauhan examines the ways in which genetic mutations can tip the balance of healthy cellular environments into diseased worlds
SATNAVmagazine
- Apr 1, 2019
- 2 min
Under the surface: the fantastical world of aquarium hobbyists
Sophie Caprioli gives an insight into the allure of
fishkeeping as a subculture
SATNAVmagazine
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
The hidden world inside your gut: the microbiome
Elin Bevan peers into the microscopic world that inhabits the
human body
SATNAVmagazine
- Apr 1, 2019
- 2 min
How to explain your dragon: a biological study of magical creatures
Abigail Joyce uses real-world science to deconstruct dragon physiology
physiology
SATNAVmagazine
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
Is there life on Mars and other worlds?
Amathur Musarrath discusses the potential for having life on planets and other objects beyond earth
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 1, 2019
- 2 min
The other worlds beneath our feet
Mia Wroe takes a look into the weird and wonderful world of the Burgess Shale and prehistory life
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 1, 2019
- 3 min
The Kraken: truth behind the mythos
Harry Holmes dives into a deep-sea world, on a quest to unveil the Kraken
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 1, 2019
- 2 min
The world of taste and how to manipulate it: molecular gastronomy
Pia Mayer introduces the science and art of molecular gastronomy
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 1, 2019
- 3 min
The mathematics of immortality
Nicholas Folidis imagines a world where we could cheat ageing and cure disease
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 1, 2019
- 2 min
A symbiotic way of life: the lichen
Lara Williams takes a closer look at the miniature ecosystem within the ubiquitous lichen
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 1, 2019
- 3 min
How bats help the world and why we should help them
Sophie Titman explores the intricate world of bats and advocates for increased conservation efforts to protect these underrated mammals
SATNAVmagazine
- Mar 1, 2019
- 2 min
Our world without bacteria
Phoebe Buxton conducts a thought experiment, imagining a world in which bacteria suddenly cease to exist
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
Bees – it is our time to help them
Nicole Rosik highlights the importance of bees and warns of the consequences if we do not help to recover bee populations
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
Taking evolution into our own hands
Sean O’Brien explores the research that earned the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and its implications for the future
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
Hanging around: why do sloths move so slowly?
Adam Dorey delves into the strange, slowed-down world of sloths
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
The cost of immortality
Abigail Joyce discusses the ethical issues surrounding HeLa cells, the first immortalised cell line to be used in scientific research
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
Rhythm, interrupted: how modern society disrupts our body clocks
Farhana Alam discusses the effects of a modern lifestyle on circadian rhythms and on human health
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
Ancient Evolution: How Neanderthal DNA Influenced Humanity
Courtney Kousser travels back in evolutionary time to explore the relationship between humans and Neanderthals
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
Legal rights to DNA have yet to keep up with the times
Tiffany Idle unravels the legal issues surrounding ownership of DNA samples
SATNAVmagazine
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
Saving our future: learning from the dinosaurs
Mia Wroe urges the public to learn from the past to save the future in the face of impending global catastrophe
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