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Carbon — to capture or not to capture

This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture...

The Azolla Event: when is a fern not a fern?

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Betelgeuse, Gamow, and a Big Red Horse

There has been a lot of talk recently of Betelgeuse possibly going supernova this century or not...

Climate Change, the Walrus and the Carpenter

I have recently watched two videos on climate change by Sabine Hossenfelder. The first one...

Robert H Olley

Until recently, I worked in the Polymer Physics Group of the Physics Department at the University of Reading.

I would describe myself as a Polymer Morphologist. I am not an astronaut,

One step nearer to fusion?

Apr 27 2012 | comment(s)

Isn’t it nice when someone does your work for you? For some years now, NIL Technololgy have been sending me science news emails as a form of advertising. Mostly these are to do with nanotechnology, but the most recent directed me to this:

Scientists propose a solution to a critical barrier to producing fusion

Chimp homicide?

Apr 19 2012 | comment(s)

Recently, Real Clear Science drew our attention to Chimps show lethal side, about incidents where chimps kill other chimps. Or “apes kill each other”, as the article actually says, but in my more hyper-logical frame of mind that sounds a bit like “pistols for two, coffee for none.”

However, the article (and the link to it from RCS) then goes on to refer to ‘chimp homicides’. It becomes quickly apparent that they are not referring to humans being killed by chimps.

Bad Advice And Bombs

Apr 07 2012 | comment(s)

A few months ago, I read Electric Universe by David Bodanis (ISBN 1400045509). There are two chapters on radar during the Second World War, #7 dealing with Britain’s defences and #8 dealing with the area bombing of Germany, a tactic down to ‘Bomber’ Harris, which to this day gives rise to doubt in Britain, such that we feel a conflict between honouring the bomber crews who sustained the heaviest proportional loss of all our armed forces, and disturbance at the methods of their commander, who went for mass