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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,

Starlings, Prozac, And Yorkshire

Nov 08 2014 | comment(s)

Will the medicines you take make their way back into your food? They might, especially of you take your cue from an old Yorkshire song which deals with human recycling in the food chain, via worms and ducks. Now, research [1] from the university of York (where else?) has studied one step of this process in detail.

It’s Art, but is it Abstract?

Oct 22 2014 | comment(s)

We have over the years read of paintings by chimpanzees, but could they be art critics also?

A recent article has appeared, outlining evidence that many cognitive tasks the we take to be a function of our human intelligence can be performed just as well (or even better) by chimpanzees. Here are links to two versions of the article:

The Anti-Gender Agenda

Oct 15 2014 | comment(s)

We’ve been having a lot of interesting items here on Science 2.0 coming from an Anglo-Oz joint venture called The Conversation,. One that struck me most forcibly has been Masculinity And Terror: The Missing Conversation, linked to a paper When Ba

A ‘Virological Penicillin’?

Oct 08 2014 | comment(s)

Alerted by an announcement in several British newspapers, for example Honeysuckle tea could fight flu, Boiling honeysuckle releases molecule which can help fight influenza virus, study suggests, I started digging deeper. Although it has not yet appeared in the literature, I did find the following EurekaAlert:

Transport, Trade And Travel

Oct 07 2014 | comment(s)

was the title of a history book I had as a boy. Good things, in their way — without them, I wouldn’t be able to sit here talking to you all and meeting some very interesting people online. But some decidedly unpleasant customers do all too often hitch a ride.