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Shot of Science: How Clean is your House & Transport? Big Earthquakes and Volcanoes of Gold
How clean is your house?
If Kim and Aggie’s industrial clean-outs in How Clean is Your House are your guilty pleasure then you might be interested in the large scale version. Researchers at Colorado have carried out a study of dust in…
Interview | Brian Koberlein One Universe At A Time
We talked to Brian Koberlein of One Universe at a Time about the ins and outs of science communication and what type of food and exercise it takes to keep the mind of a scientist going! Here's what he said!
HeadStuff: Growing up was there…
Shot of Science: Who owns the Arctic, Nano Origami, GM crops & Extinction
Extinction is bad news for parasites, too
Species extinction doesn’t just mean loss of biodiversity of host species; it spells out bad news for parasites, too. In fact, in certain parasite-host network structures, the loss of the host…
Secret Article Do Not Open!
There are lovers' secrets, family secrets, State secrets, secret codes, handshakes and diaries. Have you a secret and can you keep one? Secrets ignite our thirst for knowledge and everybody has at least one. Even as I write this I have…
Shot Of Science | The Best Of YouTube Science
YouTube is a rabbit hole of endless clicks from one video to the next. This need not be unproductive time however. Amongst the rough are diamonds. Here’s part 2 of our list of sparkly YouTubers who will dazzle and entertain you with YouTube…
Shot of Science: Tree Rings, Rotten Eggs & Another Earth
Another Earth?
Found in the Cygnus constellation, Kepler-452b is unlike any other Earth-sized planet discovered so far. The star it orbits is very similar to our Sun, and Kepler-452b circles it at a distance which would allow the planet to…
Shot Of Science | Have You Lost Hours To YouTube?
Diving down the rabbit hole of YouTube may lose you hours but that doesn’t mean time wasted. Throwing some science trivia into a conversation can impress potential lovers and make you appear far more knowledgeable than you actually are.…
Sea for Society: Surfers Against Sewage and the Science of Ireland’s Water
Last week, in Dublin’s Science Gallery, Sea for Society delivered an evening of talks about and by people whose daily lives revolve around the ocean. Sea for Society is a European Project funded by DG Research & Innovation under the…
Shot of Science: Pluto’s Love Message
In my day Pluto was a planet. One of the nine planets in our solar system I learnt off by heart: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. If any planet deserved to be kicked off the special planet list it was…
International Space University: Week 4 -5 NASA
Hi all,
Life continues here at Ohio, as indeed does the hectic pace that I’m becoming accustomed to. Getting tired now. And emotional. Life is changing for me. I can feel it; one day I’m overwhelmed and frozen in terror and the next day…