STEM Articles
Women in Space: revolutionising the past to pave way for the future
Exploring some of the most important Women in Space from the past.
Bringing women out of the footnotes of science history
Chloe Tenn highlights some of science history’s most inspiring unsung women to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Women and STEM in the media
Mhairi Finlayson spoke at this years Women in Media conference about being a woman in STEM and how STEM research can be applied in media
Genetically awake: Insomnia linked to genes
Researchers have linked 57 gene regions to insomnia, revealing new potential target areas for treatment to this increasingly prevalent condition
Baryons, beakers, and Brexit
Brexit is plagued with uncertainty, and the faster we’re moving towards it, the less we know about the UK’s position as a science powerhouse
Awe-inspiring women in science and technology
In the wake of International Women’s Day, The Mancunion takes time to recognise the outstanding contributions female scientists have made
One more data revolution should be nipped in the bud
At the AAAS annual conference, Dr Allen describes the perils of using machine learning to analyse data in experimental science
Crohn’s vs Crohn’s: how infected cells are helping us beat the disease
Researchers have innovated a new cell therapy technique that uses harvested cells from a patient suffering from Crohn’s to treat their condition.
Researchers map Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchesr from Manchester have been involved in the largest ever map of Alzheimer’s and its impacts on the human brain.
Gravitational waves: round three
Euan Hall reviews the latest developments in scientific efforts to understand ripples in space-time.
Research suggests babies can pick out words in speech
International scientific research collaboration has found evidence revealing that humans are born with the innate skills to pick out words from language
Chinese New Year special: science and the pig
Chinese New Year is right around the corner, and contributor Ella Gerry takes the opportunity to explore the significance of the pig in science research.
New Year’s resolution hack
Confidence is they key in hitting your goals in 2019
Science research has caused Spice to become such a big problem
The synthetic drug problem across Europe and North America has been created inadvertently by scientific journals’ research
Radio bursts from deep space puzzle astronomers
Astronomers have been left stumped by radio bursts found by a new Canadian radio telescope, which have only ever been observed once before
Testing for cancer with nanoparticles
The research could help with early cancer detection
Still at work: Stephen Hawking
The paper details the core of a paradox Hawking has been working on for 40 years
David Attenborough takes the People’s Seat at climate conference
It has been announced that British natural historian Sir David Attenborough will take the first ever ‘People’s Seat’ at this months UN climate conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland