In our previous post I described that the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram: Shows a survey of the properties of all the stars in the galaxy Provides a means of describing the lifecycle of a single star In this post I will concentrate on the second of these, and ask “what will happen to the Sun, and what […]
Month: June 2018
The coolest infographic ever… oh, wait, it’s a graph!
This is a piece about my favourite diagram in all of science, the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. It’s such a cool thing, I need to stop writing and just put it here, at the top. Here it is (please do scroll down and read the post though!). This diagram describes and charts the properties of the […]
A primer on colour
For a while now I have been telling people to read ‘Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs’ by Jamie Wong, on the basis that it is one of the best explanatory pieces of ‘writing with diagrams’ I have ever come across. A few of those people have given the feedback that it started at too high […]
Mixing oil and water
We all learn pretty early on that oil and water don’t mix. Add a glug of cooking oil to a glass of water and you’ll end up with the oil sitting on top of the water1. Stirring or shaking this two-layered mixture will form droplets of oil in the water and you could argue that […]
Weekly round up (5)
Here is our weekly round up of science news, where we try to collate interesting links that have a thread running through them. This week, we found such a funny story, that we thought we’d devote the whole post to the five funniest science stories we could think of. These might not have the same […]
Gels – solids, liquids or something else?
We are all taught at school that there are three states of matter, although those of you who read our recent post on the topic will know that there are more. Even so, we tend to label the materials that we encounter in our everyday lives as solids, liquids and gases and don’t often need […]