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 | Feb 17, 2011 | Science at Home
A solar flare the size of Jupiter erupted a few days ago and is now causing radio and satellite signals to drop out in China. On Valentine’s Day, the sun had a coronal mass ejection associated with a flare, a burst of solar wind that speeds through space. The...
by Captain Skellett | May 22, 2010 | How Things Work, Recent Research
Two days ago scientists at J. Craig Venter announced the creation of the first self-replicating synthetic cell, a bacteria with DNA made in a lab. How did they do it, and what does it mean for us in the future? First up, the scientists didn’t make life out of...
