International Womens Day was on 8th March, and I was involved in two outreach events aimed to promote women in science.
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As Easter approaches
There are two more weeks of semester before the Easter break. I have mixed emotions. On the one hand I am a bit knackered – teaching on two courses, co-writing 4 scientific papers, working on 2 grant proposals, etc, etc, moan, moan, grumble, grumble – but on the other hand it is fun to be […]
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A career in scientific research
You almost certainly have not heard of Prof Cornelia Bargmann, of Rockefelller University in New York. But there was an interesting feature about her in Nature a couple of weeks ago. First of all it was very timely, it came out in the week in which Prof Bargmann won a $3 million Breakthroughs in Life Sciences prize. […]
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Breakthrough in Science
There is a new, and big ($3 million), prize in science. It is the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. The idea (and money) come from by a number of Silicon Valley luminaries, including Google co-funder Sergey Brin, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The prize is in the field of biomedical research, it aims “to recognize excellence in […]
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Before NASA
Before NASA there was NACA, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. NACA was upgraded into NASA in 1958 – shortly after the then USSR launched the first satellite, Sputnik, and the USA decided they needed to pull their finger out in space. Anyway, back to NACA. In the late 1940s NACA worked with the US […]
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Talk coming up this Wednesday
Coming up this Wednesday we have a public physics talk at the University of Surrey as part of the longstanding series of local Institute of Physics Branch talks that have been organised at the Uni. This week we welcome Dr Chris Hooley from St. Andrews University, who is coming to talk about this history of […]
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