The Winton Centre: A vital time for nuanced risk communication
The Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, based at the University of Cambridge, UK, was established with a simple belief: that everyone deserves to hear accurate evidence concerning matters […]
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Nanoparticle coating in heat pipe design for miniaturised cooling
Size reduction and increasing processing power are driving forces in the development of modern electronic devices, from portable computers to smartphones and wearable devices. In all these applications, efficient cooling […]
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Can anti-cancer drugs be used as an effective therapy for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease?
Background Worldwide, around 50 million people have dementia. According to the World Health Organization reports, this number is expected to increase threefold by 2050. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most […]
The rocky road to justice for atrocities committed during the Kosovo war
The Kosovo war marked a period of unimaginable violence. The Serbian campaign of ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians, overseen by then-president of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević, met with retaliatory atrocities by […]
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Comparative semiotic perspectives: Designing “visual feasts” in food advertising
How semiotics work in advertising Semiotics is the study of signs, symbols, signification, and their forms of expression and content. Signs are recognisable codes or icons found in texts and […]
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Controlling aggregation in monoclonal antibody therapeutics
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have become the most important form of protein therapeutic and represent five of the top ten selling drugs by revenue worldwide. mAbs bind monospecifically to certain cells […]
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Can minimum marriageable age laws truly prevent teenage pregnancy?
Around the world, more than a fifth of women are married before the age of 18. But, why is this significant and how does this relate to teenage pregnancy? Girls […]
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Is it possible to train medical experts using Artificial Intelligence (AI) training methods?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining traction in all walks of human life. Today, apps that recognise and respond to human speech and self-driving cars are no longer the stuff […]
New, exotic materials: Getting oxygen into yttrium hydrides
The modern world is constantly hungry for new materials with properties optimised for their applications. Designing them is no trivial task and often relies on computational modelling to test whether […]
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High performing monomers and polymers from plant oils
We often think of fossils fuels as a source of energy, but one of the key uses of fossil fuels is as a starting point for the synthesis of new […]
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