Sara Paciaroni

There are eight planets in the solar system but only one that is able to provide life – Earth. The Earth is roughly 4 billion years old – a vast number that a lot of us cannot wrap our heads around. Modern humans have only been on this planet for about 10,000 years, and no other species has developed a similar level of intelligence or changed the face of the planet like we have.
Other species seem to be in harmony with our environment, but the same cannot be said about humans, or humans in th...

We live on a blue planet. Seventy per cent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, which is undeniably our planet’s most precious natural resource. Water is the source of life, and all creatures benefit from it – from the smallest microbe to the largest whale. For us humans, it is no different. We use water every day in various ways. Water keeps our bodies clean, not to mention our clothes, our household items and our pets. We use water for our farms and our gardens. We use water for cook...

Photo by Dustan Woodhouse on Unsplash ingle-use plastics have become one of the worst synthetic materials to impact the world. In almost every shop there is a piece of plastic that will inevitably end up in the ocean or landfill. An estimate of 513 million tons of plastic wind up in the ocean each year. [...]
Photo by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay Life and livelihoods – in celebration and support of the life and livelihood that the ocean sustains That’s the theme for this year’s United Natio...

Women bear the brunt of climate change according to the research. But they are also guiding the fight against it, with resilience, courage, and innovation.
To mark International Women’s Day 2021, we’re celebrating leading female environmentalists across the world.
Jane Goodall – Primatologist
Dr Goodall is most well known for her study of chimpanzees. In 1960, she left England for the forests of Tanzania to discover the secrets of humans’ closest relatives.
The experience turned her into a fe...

How to prevent your phone from quickly running out of battery and dying when you need it most

Blog post on an innovation part of Honours year coursework and published on lecturer's website for merit.

Today, around 20 million people in Britain have at least one tattoo and the number of tattoos carried out every year is on the rise. But what if tattoos could be beneficial to our health? What if tattoo artistry combined with biomedical engineering could transform body art in wearable displays revealing information inside the body?
This is what researches at MIT and Harvard Medical School, led by Katia Vega, succes...

News story on a controversy part of Honours year coursework and published on Lecturer's website for merit.

Stigma and discrimination would be behind the closure of Glasgow Central Station needle exchange on 24 September, according to experts.
Network Rail’s decision to close Glasgow’s busiest needle exchange “demonstrates that people who use drugs continue to be stigmatised and discriminated against”, said Emma Hamilton, National Training and Development officer at Scottish Drug Forum (SDF). “This increases the barrier...

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Chvrches returned to Scotland for the first time since performing at TRNSMT festival last July. Currently on a tour that will visit Australia, the UK, Japan, USA and Mexico, the Scottish band took to the Hydro arena stage to perform a selection of the exquisitely 80s-inspired synth-pop tracks from their new album Love Is Dead.
Glaswegian pop punk band The Ninth Wave and English pop duo Let’s Eat Grandma, fittingly opened the show. When vocalist Lauren Mayberry came on stage on the notes ...