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24 Oct 2017: As we have seen these past weeks with Harvey Weinstein, unfettered power leaves the way open for the unscrupulous, arrogant and narcissistic. Whether in film, sports or music, the differences in rewar

1 Jun 2017: Naked mole rats are undoubtedly ugly. With a hairless wrinkled body, small sharp claws and two large protruding teeth capable of moving independently, they appear more like a mutant from a horror fi

2 Mar 2017: Materials Science for me was a good middle ground between engineering and “pure” science, as it lies at the boundaries between chemistry, physics, and engineering. It is a very directly ap

30 Sep 2017: During the summer, I joined a team of 20 students to participate as a research assistant in a two week wildlife conservation expedition in Croatia. The trip was coordinated by Operation Wallacea, an o

10 Nov 2017: Waking up to experiments with plants and algae. My name’s Liat and I’m currently in my fourth year studying for a masters in Biochemistry. I started out at Murray Edwards doing natural sciences whi

12 Oct 2017:   I’m about to start my second year studying maths at Cambridge and I can’t wait to go back, even though it had never actually been my plan to do maths! I originally intended to do physics, ha

20 Apr 2017: My educational background gave me a passion for applied science and engineering, and a summer vacation job in the chemical industry gave me an appreciation for the wide variety of opportunities availa

26 Jan 2017: The amount of times I’ve tripped over or hit something while walking around in the dark is unfathomable; it’s got to the point where I’ve somewhat accepted my incapability to manoeuv

30 Sep 2017: My Gateway funding allowed me to travel with four friends to New York, Toronto and through the Canadian Rockies for a total of 16 days. We flew into Toronto thinking that we would have a couple of hou

30 Sep 2017: Upon completing my first year of studying the “classic trio” of the Physical Natural Sciences modules, physics, chemistry and material science, I was left uncertain which branch of science was the mos