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- Aug 9, 2019
- 2 min
Local Lab: What goes on in the space between the stars?
Why are anti-oxidants good for our health? And how are these questions even related? Lindsey St. Mary is an Environmental Toxicologist studying for a PhD at Heriot-Watt University. She works as part of a team of researchers from across Europe studying a group of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs for short. These chemicals are found both on earth and in space, however their perspective and effects are very different in each location! Where do PAHs come
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- Jul 24, 2019
- 2 min
Local Lab: Can taking up new activities improve the health and wellbeing of older people?
Dr Alan Gow is one of six researchers from Heriot-Watt University taking part in this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas. Alan will appear in “This Show Will Make You Sharper!” on 10th and 14th August. Tickets are available at www.tickets.edfringe.com How do our thinking skills change as we age? Do our lifestyles affect those changes? These are the key questions directing research being undertaken by Dr Alan Gow and his team in The Agei
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- Jul 1, 2018
- 5 min
Gibson-Craig, Riccarton and Abolition: “old letter found in a box”
In 2015 the UK government finally finished paying off the massive borrowing it undertook in 1833 in order to compensate slave-owners when slavery was abolished in the colonies. This gives some idea of the scale of the opposition that abolitionists had to overcome to achieve emancipation. A vast amount of money was at stake; the massive borrowing amounted to 40% of the UK’s total budget and it took nearly 200 years to clear. William Gibson-Craig of Riccarton was an ardent abol
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