Category: Science

Four years on – nearly to the day – and Media Guardian is reporting that Tomorrow’s World is returning. Well – sort of. The programme itself isn’t returning – just elements of it including the title sequence, and, well, the name. Effectively, the brand, then. This is better than nothing, but not really that great.…

What a fantastic idea! Reykjavik is turning all its street lights out on Thursday evening at 10pm for half an hour, and encouraging homes to as well. Then on national radio, astronomers will talk people through the night sky. Last week, when I was trying to take photos of the night sky, I was enormously…

I love the fact that Wikipedia is already completely up to date following today’s news that Pluto is no longer a fully-fledged planet. It’s now a dwarf planet, although I’ll be sad to lose it somehow.

Well worth a read or a listen.

I’m really glad these doctors have come out to speak up against the pointless waste of the NHS spending on “alternative” medicines that offer absolutely no proof of actually working.

They’re in my Flickr stream anyway, but here are the best of the photos I took this morning out in Golden Square of the eclipse. I’m pretty pleased with the results considering the lack of proper equipment and heavy cloud cover. The maximum magnitude of the eclipse in London was only 16.8% at 11:33 BST…

All very sad.

This week’s Horizon squarely took on creationism “Intelligent Design”, and in many respects it’s a shame. A shame that a science programme had to give up an episode to explode the myth of something that’s propogated by fundamental Christians. The programme didn’t shirk its responsibility to the subject, and the programme took a familiar structure:…

51% of Americans don’t believe in evolution. I wonder how many don’t believe in gravity, or maybe eschew the idea that the earth travels around the sun? In the meantime, a trial reaches its conclusion.

Mars really is spectacular at the moment. Without even trying, and just looking up in a firework filled, and streetlight heavy London sky, it’s very easy to spot – just near The Pleiades. In other news, Inmarsat is launching a massive satellite on Monday afternoon which is part of their global broadband system. It’s being…

I know that The Guardian published this picture of Dione in their double-page spread on Thursday, but it’s still worth a look. It’s spectacular. And this video from the flyby is also worth a 10MB download. Just wait until Cassini flys past Dione.

This is sad news. I met someone who works for a satellite company the other day and she was speaking about how risky a business it is, and what kind of insurance premiums you have to pay. So let’s hope that if CryoSat truly is lost, that its worthwhile job is done by a follow-up…