by Captain Skellett | Jul 5, 2012 | Recent Research
The world of science is abuzz with the news! CERN have discovered a new particle, and it looks like the elusive Higgs boson. That large hadron collider has really come in handy! It was announced today at CERN as a ‘curtain raiser’ for the International...
by Captain Skellett | Oct 18, 2010 | Drugs, How Things Work, Recent Research, Science Communication
While waiting for inspiration to strike a solid introduction into my head, my computer screen went blank. Good ol’ MacBook conserving energy! But letting your computer go idle doesn’t mean you have to waste its processing power. Why not cure cancer with...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 11, 2010 | Recent Research, Sex and Reproduction
Mojo: The libido. The life force. The essence. The right stuff. What the French call a certain… I don’t know what. Mojoceratops was discovered when Nicholas Longrich from Yale University was looking at existing fossils from American Museum of Natural...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 6, 2010 | Recent Research, The Realm of Bizzare
Deep in a desert in Peru palaeontologists were searching for a skull. Some years ago, teeth thought to belong to a new species of marine animal had been found, but they needed a head to identify it. Hunting in the richest area for ancient sea remains, luck eluded them...
