Pint of Science festival is running this year from 13-15th May across Edinburgh. Book tickets Festival programme below A jar of preserved sheep’s ovaries and an interpretive dance demonstrating how sperm swim wouldn’t normally accompany a cold, crisp pint of Tennent’s. But I encountered both of these one...

Since the Victorian era, vaccines have saved countless lives due to the essential role they play in prevention and control of infectious diseases. So why do people still hesitate? During the last week of April, World Immunisation Week is celebrated every year to raise awareness about the life-saving impact of vaccines and to promote...

Image from Pexels For nearly a century, the concept of an expanding universe has been foundational to astronomy. Edwin Hubble’s 1929 discovery showed that galaxies are receding from each other, a movement quantified by the Hubble constant. Today, with the advancement of telescope technology, a phenomenon known as the “Hubble Tension” has arisen....

Listen to Euscireka: Illustration by DALL-EIllustration by DALL-E Or read the full snippets in Issue 31: Science in the 22nd Century To bite, or not to bite…: Why do some people suffer from more mosquito bites than others? By Kellie Horan Attendance at live sporting events linked to life satisfaction: A new study demonstrates...

Listen to this episode: Over the last decade there has been some much-needed innovation to the antiquated process of lengthy peer review and journal publication. Papers can now be published online before peer review, the peer review process itself is evolving, and attempts are being made to disseminate results in formats other than the...

Illustration by DALL-E Listen to this article: The mantis shrimp are unassuming sea creatures that have, for most of their history, been of little interest to humanity, except as a culinary ingredient. However, all of that changed in 1989 when Cronin and Marshal discovered that the eyes of the mantis shrimp have more colour receptors...