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It was the Salters’ Festival of Chemistry at Keele today, organised by Dr Jane Essex from Education. The school children did two lab based activities then were sent to the lecture theatre with me for a chemistry magic show. I did the usual demos (for me) with liquid nitrogen, hydrogen balloons, the blue bottle, the [...]
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“Never judge an ant at first glance,” warns Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice, myrmecologist and head of the School of Ants project.
Meet Forelius pruinosus. At first glance, it may seem a little unimpressive, even underwhelming. However, the more you learn about Forelius, the more you realize there’s more to it than meets the antennae. For one, [...]
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From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog.
April 23, 2013
Every day, across the country, ordinary Americans known as “citizen scientists” make critical contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by collecting, analyzing, and sharing a wide range of data—from weather phenomena, to sightings of [...]
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For the space-inclined, the week got off to an interesting start on Monday with a press conference from the team behind Mars One, the Danish not-for-profit organisation that’s planning to broadcast the establishment of the first human settlement on Mars like a reality TV show. It was a fascinating conference, more for what the Mars [...]The post Mars One mission could go horribly wrong — if it ever gets off the ground appeared first on physicsfocus.org.
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With the third Iron Man movie coming to the big screen next week, now is a great time to spark science and engineering excitement among student fans. With Marvel's Iron Man 3 hitting theaters on May 3, excitement among sci-fi...
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The ongoing dance between a virus and its host shapes how the virus evolves.The post Incoming: Tracking Virus Evolution appeared first on MicrobiologyBytes.
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As long as we’ve been around, it’s always been there. It rises and sets each night. It cycles through its phases every 28 days. It controls the tides, it’s been helping with our navigation for hundreds of years, and (as everyone knows) it brings out the werewolves every month or so (hahaha). That being said…have […]
