We did a cool experiment last Wednesday about the UV properties of various liquids. It yielded this very cool picture which looks like something from science fiction.

The powers that be have decreed that some ereas of physic are more equal than others. The BBC has a good summary.

A radiation incident has stalled work on SCUBA2, meaning the high-tech submillimetre camera is once again delayed.

Almost one in four secondary schools in England no longer has any specialist physics teachers, a survey suggests.

A recent report on maths education in the UK claims that GCSEs have become ’shallow’. It says they cover more topics but to less depth. I tend to agree.

Some funny (and some terrible) astronomy ‘light bulb’ jokes. Feel free to add you’re own if you know of any more.

The much anticipated SCUBA-2 instrument has been installed on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. The question is how did they manage to get one very large and expensive piece of kit inside another? Here are some photos from the JAC website.