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 […]
Category: Funny science
Science is hard if you anthropomorphize your molecules
The inspiration for this post comes from a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon (if you are from a generation unfamiliar with these Bill Watterson cartoons, then go and discover them after reading this blog). Calvin sees his mum crying in the kitchen, and asks why. She explains that she is cutting up an onion, to which […]
Trying to visualise a nanometre
Working in science, and more recently in science communication, I frequently find myself working in the nano-world – wavelengths measured in nanometres, nanostructures, forces that act over unimaginably short length scales. I never used to question these distances – they were all just numbers followed by ‘nm’. Recently, however, after thinking about various topics to write […]
No Mr Bond, I don’t know anything about radioactivity
Admit it, you didn’t think James Bond could teach you much about physics. But in the film Goldfinger (1964), the eponymous villain hatches a plan to irradiate the US gold reserve at Fort Knox, rendering it worthless, and increasing the value of his own gold hoard, meanwhile providing us with a chance to discuss radioactivity. […]