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Frank Swain is a science writer and blogger. He is based in the UK.
Category: General
A collection of sublime images from embedded journalist Michael Yon of what happens when helicopters fly through dust storms. Lightning bolts arcing around the blades are thought to be created by static electricity arising from friction between two dissimilar materials...
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I'm reading the award-winning Decoding the Heavens at the moment, so what better time to discover the Smithsonian website has an excellent article on underwater archaeology? Beneath the slate-gray surface of the North Sea, about a half-mile off England's east...
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And because I didn't get this up yesterday: it's been 52 years since an intrepid little mongrel made it into space. Here's to you, Laika!...
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Live Science reports on the discovery of several new species of bio-luminescent fungi, bringing the total up to 71 different flavours of AWESOME. These are not fluorescing under a UV lamp - they really do glow in the dark, giving...
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Category: Art
From New Scientist: Iranian photographer Babak Tafreshi has won the 2009 Lennart Nilsson scientific photography prize. According to the award panel, his images "reclaim a night sky that most modern people have lost"...
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These days I get excited when I see any big science news story break because I know it's only a matter of time before it appears in delightfully skewed fashion on the Save Your Breath for Running Ponies blog. Combining...
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The week's tweets and more: 40 million year old plumage shimmers! Iridescence found in fossil feather: http://bit.ly/3FkVf "Most of you are average" - nice roundup of science-themed t shirts: http://is.gd/2Auwn Homeopaths go utterly apeshit over campaign to have WHO denounce...
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Prepare yourselves for a seismic science showdown! In the reeeeeed corner: the man from Le Mans, Britain's very own Minister for Science, the Lord Paul Rudd Drayson! In the bluuuuue corner: the Rational Radical, Benjamin "Bad Science" Goldacre! After a...
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This weekend I attended the delightful ScienceOnline conference in London, a collection of bloggers, press officers, scientists, writers, film makers and more. It was nice to see familiar faces such as Andy Lewis and David Colquhoun and even better to...
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In north east India, bridges aren't built - they're grown! The rainforests of Cherrapunji are credited with being one of the wettest places on Earth, and timber bridges would quickly rot. Locals have an innovative solution - grow bridges out...
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