Over the years, scientists have made quite a few animals glow green (when illuminated by blue/near UV light). See an earlier post for glowing fish. Marmosets, pigs, mice etc all have been made to glow. And now cats have joined the list, thanks to the work of Wongsrikeao and coworkers. See here for a picture of […]
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One of the fun things I get to do as part of my job is to be involved with the annual British Science Festival, getting involved in organising the physics and astronomy events. This year the festival is in Bradford, where I am now, and I sit outside composing this at a rather attractive new […]
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Having been back at work a month, holidays are now seeming like a long time to go. This year I went to Tanzania and climbed Kilimanjaro (it’s always good to have a nice restful holiday to set yourself up for the next term). I hadn’t really looked into this before I left, assuming it would […]
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You might be tempted to think that some multinational oil companies think that the global warming is not occurring. Particularly if you read articles like this one in The Guardian. It covers the oil company ExxonMobil funding a climate-change-sceptic, who seems to make a living attacking the scientific consensus that our world is getting warmer. […]
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A lot of science can be relatively quiet, perhaps even staid, but some topics can cause things to kick off. So-called alternative medicine (acupuncture, homeopathy, etc) is one of them. A couple of papers in the British Journal of General Practice have been the cause of no fewer than 10 (count ’em here) letters to […]
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