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... safely?

50

... years ago

Bubbles

... art

Bubbles

... and science

Timeless

Timeless

Off-Axis Sputtering Geometry

Further advances in using Off-Axis Sputtering Geometry. While the technology is innovative, the results are proven. The method, developed at The Ohio State University, has been utilized successfully for almost ten years. 

BandiT setting tips

Settings Tips for your kSA BandiT System for easier thin-film temperature monitoring.

Top auction sales

Last month saw a 1859 first edition of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection auctioned for $500,075. Elsewhere, for a mere $2.3 million one could have procured a, somewhat larger, 150 million year old allosaurus skeleton. 

Top unis

MIT, Stanford and Harvard top the QS World University Rankings 2020.

Become an astronaut

NASA has announced that it is opening up the international space station for private astronaut missions. Terms and conditions apply. Not cheap.

Wrist action

I don’t recall that Navier, Stokes, Bernoulli or Reynolds ever wrote a recipe book or opened a creperie, but fluid dynamics has hit the kitchen. The surface kinematics of producing the perfect pancake has been examined using Monte Carlo methods and partial differential equations. Apparently success is associated with rotating and decreasing the pan’s angle of inclination whilst adding the batter. Mine still stick to the pan.

Help find ET

Are we alone? After 3 years of searching the Breakthrough Listen project notes that “We found no evidence of artificial signals from beyond Earth, but this doesn't mean there isn't intelligent life out there: we may just not have looked in the right place yet, or peered deep enough to detect faint signals”. In sharing its two recent papers and 1 PB of raw observational data the team is encouraging the astronomical community to look afresh with different tools and perspectives. Did they miss something?

Help #TeachTheReach

Over 500 people are injured every year in car-dooring collisions, and it can even be fatal. Yet 35% of drivers admit to not looking for cyclists before getting out of their car - which probably includes some of your friends and family. You can change that.