by Tom | Jun 3, 2011 | Business, Science
Take a massively important underpinning of physics: symmetry and scale invariance are signs that there may be laws to be found. Apply this to biology and you get the astonishing result that Geoffrey West describes so well: There’s kind of one mammal, and every...
by Tom | May 25, 2011 | Science
El Reg pretty much gets this one right: Extragalactic black hole particle fountain awesomeness. The lobes are one million light years long. That means light, travelling at 300,000 meters per second will take a million years to get from the central galaxy to the end of...
by Tom | May 25, 2011 | Science
Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2010 is a much more uplifting set of images. The monster spider silk was particularly impressive. Great that there is still plenty more to be discovered and understood out there.
by Tom | May 20, 2011 | Reading, Science
A nicely human and subjective view of some of the places where physics and philosophy blend. I very much agree that reverting to the Higgs particle (rather than “god particle”) makes sense. Although “God boson” has a lovely...
by Tom | May 17, 2011 | Science
Lots of lovely things in there, but the clouds behaving like water in time lapse were new and marvellous for me. El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky – Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo.
by Tom | May 11, 2011 | Science
Wonder and Mystery above the Very Large Telescopes is a pretty innocuous description for a breathtaking, mind-expanding photo of the solar system. Click the link, scroll the main photo and read the text. Outstanding.
