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earth-1-white-background-300 The Wessexscene gives you a chance to catch up every Wednesday on the progress made by...
Happy vs Brooding According to a new study carried out the University of British Columbia women find brooding or swaggering men significantly more...
Dr. George McGavin Last month BioSoc was lucky enough to be given a talk by Dr. George McGavin. The talk ranged from George’s...
Methane Clathrates - also known as burning ice - have been the focus of recent work after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies Is science boring and is that caused by the way it's taught in schools? One student asks if a possible...
greenhouse-gas-150x150 Despite a UN weather report claiming an increase ins greenhouse gases it is believed around 20% of the UK population...
embankment-landslide-300x179 Climate change could cause "widespread disruption" of the UK's railways within the next 50...
Global warming graffiti in Camden Town, London on Regents Canal This month, the US midterm elections saw more than 60 candidates backed by the right-wing...

Chimpanzee A recent study which has been published in Science has shown that human aging isn’t necessarily slower than in other species of primates, despite our longer lifespan. ...
student sleeping The student lifestyle of late nights and lots of partying could be more dangerous than we...
Japan's coastal communities killed 15,720 Dalls porpoise for human food in 2003.  These top predators have been recorded with dangerously high levels of toxins such as PCB and mercury. Article discussing the current arguments for and against whaling, including politics, cultural traditions, food supply, scienific research and...
Elton John and David Furnish Is homosexuality a result of our genes or our upbringing and...
Beer Could a trip to the pub actually be...
Up to 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Day U.S officials and citizens...
Scientists at Southampton University to develop tests that will detect STIs in under fifteen...