About the journal

Dear reader,

Ink and Equations is an online journal written by students. Every piece, whether it's a story, a poem, a satire, a speech or an essay, is built around one real scientific idea. The idea isn't decoration; it's the reason the story turns or the joke lands.

We started it because most of us meet science as facts to memorise, and most of it is gone a week later. But everyone remembers a good story. So we put the science inside one. And because school keeps science and writing in separate rooms, we wanted a place where students could do both at once.

What we're hoping for is simple to say. That you leave each piece understanding one idea well enough to explain it to a friend. That students have a real place to publish work that is imaginative and accurate. And that more people start asking "how does that actually work?"

We bend the story, never the science. Every piece is checked against reliable sources; where it simplifies, it says so, and when we get something wrong, we fix it and note the change. If you ever catch us out, tell us: there's a line for it at the end of every piece.