by Captain Skellett | May 29, 2012 | Recent Research, Science Communication
Members of the SKA Organisation have just announced the locations – there’s two of them – for the square kilometre array, which will revolutionise astronomy with the world’s most sensitive radio telescope peering into the dawn of the Universe....
by Captain Skellett | May 19, 2012 | Recent Research
An easy to read blood test spells out your results, and the diagnostic device was developed with Harry Potter in mind, say researchers from Monash University. It’s even easier to read than the books! Monash describe it as “the first equipment-free,...
by Captain Skellett | Jan 27, 2012 | Recent Research
What kind of control we can wield over atoms! An electron orbiting an excited potassium atom has been confined with radio waves to mimic the movement of the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter. The Trojan asteroids precede and follow Jupiter as it orbits the sun, like an...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 28, 2011 | Recent Research, Sex and Reproduction
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the looking-glass- a whacky book if I ever read one – the laws of physics don’t really apply. Hills can become valleys, straight can become curvy, and forward is really backward. In one scene, Alice chases after the Red...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 22, 2011 | Recent Research
Tufts researcher Dany Adams was filming the development of tadpole embryos, when she decided to leave the camera hooked up to a microscope going overnight. She was hoping to get some good time-lapse footage. What she got was bioelectric patterns which flashed across...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 4, 2011 | Recent Research
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he, Spongiforma squarepantsii. Named for the best cartoon character ever, Spongebob Squarepants, this recently discovered species is not a sponge, but a fungus. Discovered in Borneo Spongiforma squarepantsii has a...