Molten lava and diet coke have something in common: too much gas. See here for gas escaping from lava, and throwing molten rock into the air, and see just for fun, because it is just great. They are using simply bottles of Diet Coke and a brand of mint called Mentos. That’s all.
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Often, when physics academics like me meet up with each other, we moan about how little maths our incoming students can do. Certainly here at Surrey we are finding it difficult to convince some students with weak maths and little confidence in their maths ability to work hard at it, and to ask for help. […]
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I printed out an interesting paper by Delebecque et al. in the journal Science about a week ago and now I have got round to reading it. It is really rather impressive, they are assembling structures in cells, or more accurately getting the cells to express carefully engineered RNA molecules that spontaneously assemble into scaffolds actually […]
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For some random reason, about half-an-hour ago I wondered how toothpastes that claim to treat sensitive teeth work. Admittedly, half an hour on the web hardly qualifies me as an expert – a shame as dentists earn more than research scientists. But as far as I can see it seems that nobody really knows with […]
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A lot of guff is talked about peer review – this is the process by which scientific articles are checked before they are published in the scientific literature. The article-to-be is sent by the editor of the scientific journal to the one or more scientists in the field who read it and decide whether it […]
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