2025’s scientific Nobel prizes
Lychees leech your energy
Anika Pai gives the rundown on the latest Nobel Prizes awarded in physics, chemistry and medicine or pharmacology

Jenny Jiang uses a financial analogy to explain how lychee toxins can trigger dangerous dips in blood sugar





Meet the student-run outreach group inspiring the next generation of scientists

Dhruv Shenai discusses his involvement in curating an exhibition on the university’s materials science department’s history



Asha Torczon examines how animal species are evolving in response to global warming

Kalina Poydovska discusses how people can confidently remember events that never happened to them


Lizzie Grace discusses the results of the Varsity survey on student menstrual health

Lucy George discusses the new methods improving outcomes for cancer patients


Max Lian fills you in on some of the latest news from the scientific world

Stella Pozzi discusses the new banana that doesn’t go brown and its role in reducing food waste and tackling climate change

Research Round-up
Teymour Taj fills you in on the latest news from the scientific world

Ruby Jackson spotlights some of the latest scientific developments

Ezra Izer discusses the genetic analysis that has supposedly identified Jack the Ripper

Opinion
Yi Sum Yue explores the culture and controversy of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Jade Scardham examines whether AI has the potential to resolve the gender data gap





Tabbie Tatton-Brown explains the paradox of your winter sniffles

Maya Kunchur explores why your grandparents’ stories are so often from their youth

Milena Aarts analyses the anti-ageing skincare claiming to change our DNA

Nicole Cappellazzo explains some of the latest scientific research




The latest scientific research, explained by Lucie Debaig

How to avoid still being stuck with the sniffles in Week 6

Medicine
Ruby Jackson discusses how this versatile molecule is revolutionising medicine

Genetics
Isaac Howell tackles the widely-held notion that our genes perfectly predict who we are, and puts forward a new way to think about our DNA