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 […]

Here is our fourth weekly round up of science news, where we try to collate interesting links that have a thread running through them. This week, from nuclear power to gender imbalance via Earth’s orbit. The Guardian’s weekly podcast asks why we are scared of nuclear power, since fewer people die per unit of energy […]

To create a Fibonacci sequence, each number is formed by adding the two previous numbers. So, if we start with 1 and 1, the sequence goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 21 etc. There are interesting and well-known examples of Fibonacci numbers appearing in nature, and a related concept is the golden ratio. […]

In science news this week… The Guardian newspaper reported on the likely fate of the Sun in a few billion years’ time. Amazing that the Sun is losing mass at the rate of 4 billion kilograms per second (due to its nuclear reactions and the wonder of [latex]E=mc^2[/latex]) and yet it will still last this […]

This is the first of our new (hopefully!) weekly round-ups of interesting science articles, videos, podcasts, etc. We’ll try to give up to 10 decent links each week. On the 14th of September 2015 the twin detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory made the first direct observation of gravitational waves. Since then five other events […]