Space

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…

As the end of today comes to a close something peculiar will happen, it won’t end. At least not for another second. Today, Tuesday 30th June 2015 will be the 26th occurrence of a Leap Second since its introduction in 1972. The clocks will…

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…

Sunday, June 14, 15 Hi all, Greetings from the stunning campus of Ohio University, Athens Ohio. I’m here because this is the host site for the International Space University’s annual Space Studies Programme, a 9 week intensive…

In pubs across the country, last Monday, Pint of Science kicked off a three-day extravaganza of fun, interesting and insightful lectures, about all things science. Dublin, Galway and Limerick were host to some fantastically named lectures…

NASA tackles climate change NASA scientists have said that by 2040 the hole in the ozone layer, now 12 million square miles wide, will have shrunk by another 4 million square miles. By the end of the 21st century the hole should have…

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…

The Blob It sounds like a bad sci-fi movie but in the Pacific ocean there is a patch scientists called ‘The Blob’ that is threatening marine life. 'The Blob' is a rough circle that is growing and now 100 metres deep and 2000 kms wide…

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…