Thursday, 22 April 2021

Going with the flow

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Inkanoack (CC0 Public Domain via Pixabay) Ice is often overlooked. A small fraction of water, hostaged on land – it’s even missed out on the...
Monday, 5 April 2021

A smart race

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Nanorobot swarms are the stuff of sci-fi films, but smart dust is being developed now. Johan Oomen. An assembly of microelectromechanical ...
Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Resistance

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In 1929, Alexander Fleming published his first observations of penicillin under a microscope. A sloppy technician, he’d returned from holida...
Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Performing dogs and molecular roulette

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Performing dogs   Performing dogs take nerve-settling beta-blockers. Habj How do we make new chemicals? It was a question James Black asked...
Thursday, 25 February 2021

Discovery

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Carbon nanotubes were known before bucky balls – discovered in 1985 by Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley and Robert Curl . Yet eight years later,...
Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Listening to the Ocean

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This is a guest blog post. The article was adaped with permissions from Sofar Ocean .   What has climate change done to oceans? And what do ...
Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Counterfeit brandy

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Szalony kucharz via Wikipedia Commons In the 15th and 16th centuries, working out the alcohol percentage of wine was no easy feat. For ease,...
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Monday, 25 January 2021

The sweet taste of unknown

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© TWDK I eat my artichoke-aubergine breakfast dish (my vegetarian take on Antigua and Barbuda’s traditional aubergine saltfish breakfast), ...