While I have no difficulty understanding our previous blog post on ripples, I must confess to being a little adrift over the gravity surrounding the recent news. Although I’m totally caught up in the infectious scientific excitement of the whole announcement on detecting gravitational waves,...
#agarpocalypse Don't worry if this alarming piece of (non-)news slipped past your radar at the end of the year: the world is running out of seaweed! Not just any old seaweed, but the red stuff beloved of microbiology labs. https://twitter.com/StefanieVogt/status/667417029968855042 As reported breathlessly in the lab and science media, worldwide...
Amidst the excitement of the usual first-baby announcements and the seemingly impossible stories of twins born in different years that herald the start of another new year, you may have missed this snippet: the global science family also welcomed some new additions. Elements 113, 115, 117 and...
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Christmas: it’s been and gone; the turkey coma is ebbing, but the sandwiches/chili/even more sandwiches are recurring. The weather outside is frightful, so what else to do other than hibernate in front of a screen? While you’re cooped up with the rest of the family, with...