See how we’ve stopped calling this a ‘weekly round-up’. That was an ambition we could never live up to… 🙂 The Parker Solar Probe has been in the news a lot this week. Here’s an article from the New York Times, plus a video explainer. The probe will reach the melting point of steel, and […]
Month: August 2018
An introduction to liquid crystals
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you’ll know that there’s more to the world around us than the three states of matter that we learn about at school. In the short time that we’ve been writing we’ve looked at plasma, dark matter and colloidal systems, all of which challenge the traditional view that […]
What does the periodic table really look like?
Hi. So what’s this? OK, so it would have been a better question had the answer not been in the title of the post… But you would have known this was a Periodic Table anyway, right? And that’s quite amazing from just the outline (no details) of what is just a series of rectangles (or […]