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EUSci magazine is released three times a year, with a wide range of themes covering diverse subjects from across science. Suitable articles that don't make it into the print magazine will usually still be edited and displayed online. Have a look at what other people have written, and submit a piece yourself!

Faster than a Speeding Photon

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2012-04-22 19:53
Jaan-Eerik Past examines the implications of ‘faster-than-light’ neutrinos

There are certain times when a branch of science comes to the forefront of mainstream media. Most times, such attention seems to be brought on by some buzz-phrase – ‘artificial life’, stem cells, ‘inhabitable planets’ or, in the case of physics, ‘faster-than-light’. Read more »

Pass me the flux capacitor!

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2012-04-22 19:58
Muhammad Talha Sami looks at time travel and its physical possibilities

“One day, if somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter a thousand years into the future, don’t slam the door! Because maybe your descendant got into a time machine to visit her ancestor.”
- Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist
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Victoria Secrets

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2012-04-22 20:04
Emily Pritchard tells you what Delia Smith won’t about sponge cake

I love cake. I love eating it and I love baking it. And one of the most fun things about baking cake, as opposed to other kinds of cooking, is that baking is chemistry. In savoury cooking, the skill is in picking the right ingredients that will be tasty together - an art. But in baking cake, you obviously want good flavours, but it’s meaningless if you can’t get the right combination of flour, sugar, egg, fat, and raising agent. You have to set up the right chemical reactions between your ingredients to get a good cake. Read more »

Sines of Ghosts

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2012-04-22 20:24
Lindsey Robinson reveals the link between infrasound and the paranormal

The question of life after death, and more specifically the possibility of the dead coexisting with the living, has always been a fascinating and divisive topic of debate. Over the last decade, several TV shows such as Most Haunted or Ghost Hunters have accumulated a massive cultural following by employing the scientific method to investigate the unhappy inhabitants of some of the most famously haunted places across the globe. Sadly, these methods, which range from using electromagnetic force detectors and thermometers to standing in the dark and listening very hard, have so far failed to unearth any convincing evidence of ‘the other side’. Read more »

Biochar: Coming From the Past to Improve the Future

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2012-04-22 20:39
Alua Suleimenova explores ancient secrets of modern science with Dr Miranda Prendergast-Miller

Q. The term ‘biochar’ is a relatively recent development, and there is a range of terms when discussing biochar, such as charcoal, agrichar, biocoal… What is biochar, and how does it differ from other forms of chars? Read more »

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