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    Can Trees Communicate and Feel Emotions?

    Ella Pilson For the first time over the Christmas holidays, I watched Avatar. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with bad reviews after the first film, ranging from its three hour long length, the special effects not outweighing the costs or for some the underwhelming storyline. However, I...
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    The Candle and the Mind

    Ella Pilson  Are you a candle lover? If you are, you’re not alone – the global market size valuing $533.5 million in 2020. An estimated 2.13 million people buying packs of these fragrances at a time. If not, what would you say if I told you that they could...
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    The Accuracy of IQ Tests

    Natasha Phang Lee Do you think you’re intelligent? Maybe you’ve been told you’re smart. Perhaps you’ve even been heralded a genius! But would an IQ test come to the same conclusion? Natasha Phang Lee investigates. The IQ test has long been seen as an indicator of intelligence with participants...
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    The Importance of Sunscreen in the Winter

    Charlotte Bowers   SPF and Skincare – many of us have daily skincare routines either with lots of products or very few. But scientists argue that you should be wearing sunscreen every day as part of your skincare routine to protect against things such as photoaging and hyperpigmentation. Is...
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    UK Space Industry – Failure to Launch

    Adaora Elliott The Virgin Orbit ‘Start Me Up’ Mission consisted of the Cosmic Girl, a modified Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747, being used as a launching mechanism for the LauncherOne rocket. It had its seats removed, its upper deck converted into a control centre for launch engineers, and a LauncherOne...
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    Faster vs Slower Walkers: Who Wins?

    ‘These boots are made for walking’. But how fast do they go? Are they designed to get stuck behind painfully slow walkers? Do they allow you to take in your surroundings, or are you in too much of a rush to notice them? To put it simply, most of...
  • Fun-guy to Bad-guy: The Looming Threat of Fungal Disease

    Amidst a backdrop of coronavirus (COVID-19) and monkeypox infection, the vulnerability of human health can seem inescapable. But just as UK COVID-19 infections are once again falling, a recently published fungal priority pathogen list (FPPL) warns of the significant threats posed by fungal infection. Impact's Matthew Murray reports....