October 2018

Donna Strickland has won the Nobel Prize for Physics, the third woman to receive the award in the history of the prize. A Canadian Physicist, Strickland’s work resulted in ‘chirped pulse amplification’, the production of ‘short and intense laser pulses’ that have revolutionised cutting techniques across a range of industries. […]

The Advertising Standards Agency has banned adverts screened between segments of ITV’s Love Island last summer, on the grounds that the promotion of breast augmentation, during peak time, was ‘irresponsible and harmful’. Produced for cosmetic surgery MYA, campaigners argued that they ‘were exploitative of young women’s insecurities’. With Love Island’s