The tides of Venus
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With this picture, clays just became the new sexy science, in mineralogical terms at least (well having said that if you’re into mud wrestling then I suppose clays have long been sexy). Here is the long-sought…
This was my week. Head buried in grant writing looks up “Oh, the Pope has resigned.” Goes back to writing, looks up a few days later “Oh dear, it seems that everyone has been eating horse.” Goes back to…
I was sat in the garden over the weekend looking up at the cloudless blue sky and noticed what looked like a bright star moving steadily across the sky. My first thought was that I had spotted the International…
It’s now my second summer in Australia. The first wasn’t too bad but this year the frequency of days in the high-30s is a little too high for this English girl. Today’s going to hit 39°C in Melbourne…
It’s been a short but productive life for the two satellites that made up the NASA’s latest successful moon mission. Named Ebb and Flow both were each about the size of a washing machine and have been…
It has been a terrible couple of weeks with renewed conflict between Palestinian and Israeli factions. A fragile cease fire is holding (so far), but has come too late for those who lost their lives in…
About a week or so ago the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, literally swallowed some dust. Scooped from the soil about the rover, its robotic arm manoeuvred to a hole and tipped the dust into the belly…
After the success of the audacious Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) in delivering the Curiosity rover to Mars, the space engineers of this world are no doubt looking for the next challenge. How about something…
A study last week suggested that there could be up to 400 billion metric tonnes of methane under the Antarctic ice sheet. The concern this study flagged up was the effect on the climate such a large amount…
There’s a rock on the surface of Mars that now has a very strange life story. N165’s life started out normally enough. Like the basalt rocks on Earth it would have erupted molten, and solidified when exposed…