Update 5pm Tales of the Transit So that’s it for another 105 years, I hope that even if the clouds didn’t part you saw it on some of the live web feeds Ian Musgrave was keeping us well informed on. There’s…
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It’s not every day that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes up, but on Wednesday you have the opportunity to see the silhouette of the planet of Venus move across the disk of the sun. To see this happen…
There are at present a number of ‘grand questions’ in physics. From the search for the Higgs boson to the unbalance of matter and anti-matter in the observable universe, but the one that most interest…
On Tuesday a funeral cortege pulled up outside the UK’s Westminster parliament and the mourners pulled out a wreath depicting ‘Science’. Some 100 protesters observed this as part of their protest against…
The chink of light in the few weeks of madness I’ve had was news that European Space Agency (ESA) have decided to commission a mission to Jupiter. A catchy name too, JUICE from JU piter IC y moons Explorer…
With an enormous fanfare, pomp and ceremony, a consortium of billionaires released their newest space plans: to mine an asteroid. These guys have a history of game changing when it comes to space, having…
As the world braced itself for the large solar storm last month, one fearless rubber chicken looked danger in the eye and went to meet it head on. Armed with only a knitted space suit, Camilla took to…
When thinking about what to kick off this column with, it seemed appropriate to give an insight into a project we’re looking into at the synchrotron. At coffee a few months ago a fellow researcher Simon…
A young researcher is wandering about the newly planted forest of eminent columns on The Conversation and notices the door to one has been left open … *Looks about the inside of the column* It’s nice and…
Earlier this year, an international team of scientists reported that a sample of natural “quasicrystal” found in a Russian mountain range had formed 4.5 billion years ago and arrived on Earth as a meteorite…
Late last week the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) announced they had successfully drilled into the elusive sub-glacial Lake Vostok, a body of water lying under nearly 4km of Antarctic…
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