With the 2026 Winter Olympics starting today, we get to witness feats of human strength, speed and endurance across many disciplines. But how much does (or should) the sporting equipment aid these feats? During the ski jumping world championships last year, the Norwegian team were accused of “techdoping” where their
Last week, a study from Stanford University was published in Nature that describes additional risks and changes to prognosis in cancer patients that also have colour vision deficiency (CVD). This retrospective study found a significant increase in mortality in bladder cancer patients with CVD compared to those without CVD. The
Last year an interstellar object made headlines, a comet that had been spotted traveling towards our solar system and had the potential to impact our planet or our moon - causing conspiracy theories and predictions to spread like wild fire, from a comet containing unknown matter, to alien technology. The
Last week saw the first treatment in the UK for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, which involves filtering out the patient’s T-cells, and genetically altering these cells to express chimeric antigen receptors. These cells (known as CAR-T cells) are then grown in culture and introduced back into the patient’s
The first week of January has seen a widespread dump of snow across the UK, particularly here in Scotland. But how are our weather predictions developing with evolving technology? A common issue pubic weather forecasts tend not to mention or account for uncertainty this word has different connotations depending on
