The Dragon Capsule from SpaceX has just docked successfully with the International Space Station. It carried four astronauts to the orbiting space station; they will live there for the next six months. It was reported by the Guardian here. Looking at the picture in the report, I was struck by how close the Earth seems. […]
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The world’s oldest periodic table
Recently, the BBC reported that “a periodic table found during a laboratory clear-out at the University of St Andrews is believed to be the oldest in the world.” Here it is, together with the link to the original article. There’s loads of interesting and thought-provoking science in this periodic table. Hence this post. It would […]
Where have all the solids, liquids and gases gone?
We are all taught at school that the three states of matter are solids, liquids and gases. It makes sense, and we don’t tend to question it. After all, we walk on the solid earth, drink liquid water and breathe the gaseous air. Without any one of these three states of matter, our lives would […]