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Wednesday 23rd February 2011

Sexy Science: The Weekly Scientist on Bad, Bad Men

With his gun-toting escapades and a habit of never waking up to the same woman more than once, James Bond turns out to be not just the antithesis of the pasty, sensible Englishman; he’s also everything evolutionists would expect not to have survived the brutal force of natural…

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Monday 14th February 2011

Sexy Science: The Weekly Scientist on The Other Big C

Commitment issues in relationships have been the cause of many a broken heart. Relationships have been rapidly torn apart by suspicions of infidelity, mainly via the 21st century medium of Facebook. The saucy inbox messages or the inappropriate pokes can lead to heated arguments, days in bed, and…

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Tuesday 8th February 2011

Sexy Science: The Weekly Scientist on the History of STDs

February, the month of love; love has a different meaning in the biological world. As you will see in the magazine’s Valentine Special, it can be broken down into brain chemistry and animal instincts. To the microbiologist, however, it also conjures up images of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).…

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Tuesday 1st February 2011

Sexy Science: The Weekly Scientist on Sperm Wars

When it comes to sex, devious trickery is aplenty. Whether its killer semen, or barbed, multi-tasking penises; you name it, the randy male has it in his arsenal — truly, sadomasochism as only Mother Nature could have invented it. Take a look at the female fruit fly for…

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Tuesday 25th January 2011

The Weekly Scientist on the Atomic Bomb

When I hear that an estimated 236,000 people died in the nuclear attack on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, I often think that the true value of this figure is lost on us. 236,000 people…That’s almost the same as the entire population of the City of Nottingham, or…

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Monday 17th January 2011

What Women Don’t Know About Their Womb

National chlamydia rates are currently between two and six percent. Everyone has heard of chlamydia despite a relatively low prevalence rate. One in four women have fibroids, but when I asked 20 students whether they had heard of them before, only five had. Although they sound like something…

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Monday 17th January 2011

Volcanoes or What Lies Beneath…

If you haven’t lived under a rock for the past 12 months you would have heard of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic system in Iceland (a.k.a. Eyjafjöll volcano) in April 2010. The media covered the event mainly due to the considerable disruption of civil and military air…

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Monday 17th January 2011

Hyperthymesia: One Superpower You Wish You Didn’t Have

If you ever get to meet Jill Price aka “The Woman Who Can’t Forget” in person, you might end up a little disappointed. She is by far no Raymond Babbitt. Her memory, though astonishing, does not extend to the feat of memorising binary codes or reciting Tolstoy’s War…

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Monday 17th January 2011

Are Dreams Defunct?

In this day and age, we are no closer to ascertaining whether dreams are advantageous to the longevity of the human race, or indeed whether they serve any function at all. This is reinforced by the fact that few are able to recall their dreams after waking, leading…

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Monday 17th January 2011

Are We Just Slaves To Our Sexual Organs?

At university, everyone seems to know of a holiday romance, a one-night-stand or a casual fling that’s happened to someone, which may even have been themselves. What do all of these have in common? The answer is simple: sex. Promiscuity is rather common in the student community, yet…

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