The Society Awards saw an impressive turnout on Friday May 4, when almost 300 students came to be recognised for all the passion and dedication they have given over the last year.
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Thuggery in boxing
Jack Blakiston-Houston
How will we view David Haye and Derek Chisora in twenty years time? At present it is more likely to be as two of the finest patrons of thuggery than the champions they both had the chance to become.
Homeland finale delivers a dazzling end to a gripping first series
Daisy Payne
Homeland’s twelve part run on Channel 4 was nothing short of thrilling. It’s beginning depicted a CIA analyst bribing her way into an Iraqi prison, extorting information from a condemned al-Qaeda bomb maker. He …
Doctors support denial of treatment
Ellie Woodruff
A majority of doctors have voted in favour of withholding non-emergency NHS treatment to smokers and the obese until they change their unhealthy habits.
A tattoo too many?
Lisa Grace
Tattooing in the West has been used to express personal identity since the eighteenth century. It has been burdened with many negative connotations in its lifespan, such as a symbol of identity with criminal …
Dutch government attempt to weed out pot-smoking tourists
Felicity Box
Dutch judges have come to a decision which will ban tourists from using cannabis cafés. The possession of small amounts of cannabis for personal use has been decriminalised in the Netherlands for over 35 …
Shellshocked hen gives birth to eggless chick
Helen Cox
Stop what you are doing. It seems the massively important, age old question of ‘What came first…the chicken or the egg?’ has finally been answered. Sort of.
Intel plans to dominate Windows 8 with new chips
Peter Gray
Intel release details of revolutionary new “3D chips”
Otherworldly goldrush: mission to mine asteroids
Matt Bradley
A cabal of high flying billionaire businessmen invest in a plan to exploit the asteroids that litter the space around Earth for precious minerals and resources.
The bottom line: faecal transplants save lives
Science Editor Natalie Healey investigates a controversial treatment that has shown much success in the treatment of a potentially fatal gastrointestinal condition
Cardiff scientists awarded prestigious honour
The Royal Society has invited its latest intake of fellows into its prestigious group, including two Cardiff scientists, bringing the total number of members at the university to eleven.
Radical new trials suggest a big heart isn’t always best
Rhys Clayton
Since the beginning of time humankind has been obsessed with cheating death. For centuries now, even millennia, hoards of men have travelled the world in search of the Fountain of Youth, the Holy Grail, …
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Pigeons: the next big thing in the GPS world
Luke Slade
So, the time has come to bin your ‘Tom Tom’ and your ‘Garmin’ in favour of an onboard pigeon. Well, maybe not – but it turns out that pigeons have something in the way …
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Students take on Three Peaks Challenge for Wales Air Ambulance
by Isabelle Roberts
Cardiff University’s Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Society are undergoing the 3 Peaks Challenge in just 24 hours to raise money for Wales Air Ambulance on Saturday May 26.
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Stomp 2012
Gan: Heledd Lewis
Unwaith eto eleni, mae cymdeithas ‘Y Gym Gym’ ac Ysgol y Gymraeg yn cyflwyno ‘Stomp’.
