Chances are you will have used google today …. and chances are you will have seen the traditional google logo replaced with a bunsen burner, kettle, test tubes and so on.
Somehow (and I am still trying to figure out how to do this!) you can get the ‘google bunsen logo’ to turn into an animation, as the following youtube clip shows.
Do you trust the temperature reading on your thermometer? How important is it to us that equipment records the ‘correct data’?
You may remember a few years ago (six and a half) that NASA landed a couple of robots on Mars – Opportunity and Spirit.
Tuesday was World Water Day 2011 and the theme for this year was ‘Water for Cities’. The theme for this weeks blogs posts will therefore be all about water.
So far, we have been focusing on the fact that water has a much higher boiling point than is predicted and that the reason could be pinned down to electronegativity.
Tuesday was World Water Day 2011 and the theme for this year was ‘Water for Cities’. The theme for this weeks blogs posts will therefore be all about water.
So far, we have been focussing on the fact that water has a much higher boiling point than is prediced and that the reason could be pinned down to the hydrogen bond.
Yesterday was World Water Day 2011 and the theme for this year is ‘Water for Cities’. The theme for this weeks blogs posts will therefore be all about water.
You may also remember that yesterday I posted a question asking:
This week has been ‘National Science and Engineering’ week in the UK.
The BBC has come up with this quiz (click here)to see how much you know about science fact or fiction – I scored 5/8 and was pleasantly surprised to find my rating as being ‘Graduate Student’ – not quite ‘Professor Standard’ but a least I wasn’t a ‘lab rat’ ! 
You will have heard of the saying ‘like trying to find a needle in a haystack’ , well how about this one, ‘trying to find a single atom in a crystal’.
This phenomena has now been successfully carried out by a research team. Individual atoms of lanthanum have been observed in crystals of calcium titanate.
Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while may remember a few posts about twelve months ago that were linked in with a BBC TV series called ‘Wonders of The Solar System’. It was hosted by professor Brian Cox.
Well, the prof is back with a new four part series. Episode 2, Stardust aired Sunday evening in the UK.
Is going to church dangerous for your health?
The atmosphere in churches are sometimes laden with smoke from candles and incense. This smoke however can contain particulate material in concentrations of PM10 (or less than 10 micrometres).
Tumours need a blood supply to grow and so it make sense to hypothesise that if the growth of blood vessels in tumors could be stopped, the tumour would effectively die.
Enter a group of antibodeis that can be used to destroy the protein (vascular endothelial growth factor or VEGF) that tells the blood vessels to divide.
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