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For those of us with an interest in all things Space, we had been waiting for December for quite some time. You might assume that I’m referring to the Star Wars premiere (which was great and a big moment for me too), but I’m actually…

This week, Twitter watched as Conor McGregor became the UFC featherweight champion, went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and applauded as Turing Pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli got arrested for fraud. We also saw Tim Peake fly off to…

Last Wednesday, November 11th I flew to the European Space Agency's Research & Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, to attend their TEDxESA event, which was themed on Science Beyond Fiction, an investigation into the…

Musicians do better at cocktail parties In case you needed more reasons to take your favourite muso to your next party, it turns out that they’re better at listening during noisy situations. An article published in Nature shows that people…

Monday, June 29, 15 Week 3 Hi all, I can’t believe that a week has passed since my last blogpost. Time is starting to warp here, with more and more activities being squeezed in to an already jam-packed schedule. Voluntarily being…

Sunday June 21, 15 Hello again from Ohio, Weather this week has been CRAZY- thunder storms, power shortages. It's getting quite humid here this time of year, but from speaking to the locals, it seems that this isn’t your average Ohio…

At the end of January, $5.25 million was handed out to teams of scientists attempting to reach the moon. The potential launch date for these private enterprises is December 2016 and if any of them succeed it will be the first private Earth…

Ups and downs at the LHC Don't they look happy! It’s been an exciting few weeks over at CERN. After a scheduled 2 year downtime, the Large Hadron Collider was due to restart last week, but the momentous occasion was delayed by a short…