Most people have a rough idea about what plasma is, usually thanks to the plasma TV craze that hit many years ago and has since been replaced by LCDs, but…
Science
Mars doesn’t have much of an atmosphere and the little it does have is rather hostile to life, being composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide with only small percentages of…
I have to try hard to avoid the echo chamber I find myself in sometimes where the combination of my like minded friends, carefully tailored RSS feed and social media…
Update: Quantum Generation Pty Ltd has responded to this post and I’ve provided detailed analysis of it here. Even though I’ve got a very public email address the amount of…
You can see light’s presence everywhere, but have you ever seen it moving? Due to the speed of light being the fastest thing we currently know of it’s a rather…
After a long weekend of staying up late, drinking merrily and enjoying the company of many close friends I found myself being a little under the weather. This is pretty…
When a technology company doesn’t get a whole lot of press it usually means one of two things: the first is that it isn’t that interesting and no one really…
Ever wondered how we evolved to look the way we did today from our ancestors that lived millions of years ago? Wonder no longer: I often find myself digging through…
Vaccines are the most effective form of disease prevention as they train our bodies to respond to them long before we encounter them in wild. They’re responsible for systemically wiping…
Australia is a relatively unexciting place, tectonically speaking. We’re smack bang in the middle of the Indo-Australian plate which means that our landscape is quite old (as there’s no tectonic activity…