Yay! And true. Not the ones with which we’re all familiar, of course (and by these I am referring to the Giza structures). [Interesting sidenote: bacteria are capable of building structures with sand, which they turn into sandstone, and there’s… Read more ›
Yea, and verily. Just a brief check-in, this, to assure everyone that yes, I am alive, but I’ve had my head buried in all kinds of science-based goings-on recently. It all started on Tuesday evening, when I was lucky enough… Read more ›
Ok, so I’m going to go about this in the fashion most often called ‘arse-about-face’. First, a word of explanation. I was lucky enough to get to go to the ISIS-18 open day a little while back. During said day,… Read more ›
In a fit of market-research madness, Carl Zimmer (one of my favourite science writers) assembled a little survey looking into people’s science reading habits. In essence, it asked how people get their ‘science fix’, where they get it from, and… Read more ›
A number of interesting revelations to be had here, and all to do with our choices of ‘mate’. And by mate, I don’t mean the antipodean colloquialism meaning ‘friend’. Nope, I mean mate as in, you know, someone you want… Read more ›
Last week, my colleague Dacia and I were fortunate enough to go out to Avalon to meet Ken Gledhill and Kevin Fenaughty, two of the people involved in GeoNet. The website will be one familiar to many Kiwis – a… Read more ›
Good morning everyone, and welcome. As those of you who are part of Research Blogging are likely aware (following a missive that should have appeared in your inbox in the last few hours), voting has opened to choose the winners… Read more ›
This is great news for all of us drinkers. And, frankly, if I was just a little better at actual chemistry, how I’d make my first couple of fortunes* And now I have the song ‘Tiny Bubbles‘ stuck, unfortunately, in… Read more ›