Latest edition of student science magazine hits the streets

BlueSci was started by Cambridge University Science Productions (CUSP), the science communications society, at the start of Michaelmas Term 2004 and has appeared at the start of every term since. Now in its 10th edition, the magazine covers a wide-range of scientific topics written in an informative and easily comprehensible style.

This term's feature-filled articles include the increasingly important use of blogs to circulate knowledge around the world and the gain in popularity of controversial non-peer reviewed scientific material.

Contributors to the edition include the government's Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir David King, discussing editorial responsibility and the issue of climate change. Meanwhile, the CUSP Film Team report on their recent excursion to CERN in Geneva to explore why smashing protons moving at 99.9% the speed of light may help us understand the beginning of the Universe.

The magazine is available at any one of the 31 Cambridge colleges, and selected university departments and buildings. It is currently available at the Bluesci website, which can be accessed via the link on the right-hand side of this page. The website also provides access to Bluesci's weekly online science news service as well as interviews with well-known academics in the form of Podcasts.

The magazine team is already on the hunt for contributors for the next edition, which will be published in January 2008. If you're a member of the university and would like to write or be involved with illustrating, graphics, or production, then the BlueSci team would be delighted to hear from you.