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Not So Elementary (the Cosmos, That Is)

Recently there are appeared a paper showing how Physics - Iron–Helium Compounds Form Under...

Carbon — to capture or not to capture

This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture...

The Azolla Event: when is a fern not a fern?

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Betelgeuse, Gamow, and a Big Red Horse

There has been a lot of talk recently of Betelgeuse possibly going supernova this century or not...

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Until recently, I worked in the Polymer Physics Group of the Physics Department at the University of Reading.

I would describe myself as a Polymer Morphologist. I am not an astronaut,

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恭賀新禧 And The Moon

恭賀新禧 And The Moon

Feb 16 2018 | comment(s)

To observers in much of North America and East Asia, on January 31st, the second full moon of the month, passed through Earth’s shadow in a Super Blue Blood Moon.

De Haut En Bas

De Haut En Bas

Oct 19 2017 | comment(s)

Recently, in the New Statesman, under the headline David Attenborough: Brexiteers “probably don’t understand” facts, we read:
Is Betelgeuse A Cannibal Star?

Is Betelgeuse A Cannibal Star?

Jun 29 2017 | comment(s)

A day or two ago I came across this article

Rocket salad, enantiomers, and nomenclature

Rocket salad, enantiomers, and nomenclature

Apr 29 2017 | comment(s)

Yet another article in the Telegraph: this time Supermarket rocket salad healthier than homegrown. featuring the vegetable kingdom this time:

Muck and Medicine

Muck and Medicine

Apr 12 2017 | comment(s)

An article in The Federalist:

The Darwinism That Fuels Atheism Actually Favors Religiosity

 

contains a section based on a 2016 report

The First Known Deuterostome?

The First Known Deuterostome?

Feb 14 2017 | comment(s)

A few days ago I read an article in the Telegraph Humanity’s earliest known ancestor discovered - and it looks like a ‘wrinkled old sack’, featuring this creature: