Hot Dogs Afterwards

Hot Dogs Afterwards

Jul 29

This came through my door today and really made me laugh. “Jesus meets a corpse – hot dogs afterwards”

Lightning in Slow Motion

Lightning in Slow Motion

Jul 28

Amazing video of lightning taken with a very high frame rate camera. 9,000 images per second really lets you see that lightning does not behave as we all imagine.

Displaying Data with Swivel

Displaying Data with Swivel

Jul 13

Swivel is a website that let’s you share reports of charts and numbers. It is like Excel, online. Swivel is free for public data, and charges a monthly fee to people who want to use it in private.

My TEDxCardiff Talk

My TEDxCardiff Talk

Jul 13

My TEDxCardfif talk, “The Invisible Universe”.

Earth 70 Million Years Younger

Earth 70 Million Years Younger

Jul 12

A new geological study has set a more accurate age for planet Earth, according to scientists. Researchers say their investigation shows the Earth is 70 million years younger than the 4.537 billion-year-old planet “we had previously imagined”.

Orion and Perseus Seen by Planck

Orion and Perseus Seen by Planck

Apr 26

New images from Planck, ESA’s cosmological space observatory, show star formation in Orion and Perseus. These lovely images show cold prestellar cores about to burst into life as protostars. Planck is able to show a level of detail not yet seen at these wavelengths and to map the regions in a fantastic new way. These images show radiation with wavelengths of 10 mm (red), 850 microns (green)...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 100

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 100

Apr 26

In the run up to my viva last week I became obsessed with a game I played a few years ago whilst at a summer school in Switzerland. Viva revision is somewhat mind-numbing because you feel that you are just reading your thesis thing over and over again. I took plenty of breaks to keep myself sane but I found that I needed to keep my brain active or I’d lose the plot. This game is the perfect...

Galaxy Zoo: Hubble

Galaxy Zoo: Hubble

Apr 23

The Galaxy Zoo project has evolved once again. Galaxy Zoo: Hubble is the new incarnation of the Zooniverse's fantastic citizen science project. The latest Galaxy Zoo project continues to allow the public to help astronomers with real scientific research by getting to to visually classify galaxies online.