It is not an exaggeration to say that today, the 1st of January 2021, is the beginning of a new chapter in our nation's history. The Brexit Wars, as Nigel Farage calls them, are finally over. Some might argue that certainty of that outcome is the best thing about leaving with a deal. The threat of any serious campaign to rejoin the European Union has been neutralised. We can finally move on, stop talking arguing about the pros and cons of Brexit, and get on with rediscovering

Ice cores have proven to be an invaluable resource of information about past climate, showing cyclical ice ages, natural disasters and countless examples of abrupt climate change as far back as 800 thousand years ago. You can watch a short video about Ice core research on the US National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility website. Source: Image by Michael Sigl, Frozen in time article, Royal Society of Chemistry. Ice cores are frequently discussed in conversations and articl

If you pull a muscle you know you need to rest for the muscle to heal properly. If you catch the flu, you know you need to rest for your immune system to beat the virus quickly. You heal faster when your body can focus on healing. We all know this. Yet most of us will go our entire lives eating three meals a day, never giving our bodies a rest from digesting, processing and storing all the nutrients it wants, whilst squeezing all that decomposing food through metres of digest