Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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A particle God doesn’t want us to discover
Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future, as some physicists say
Jonathan Leake
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Explosions, scientists arrested for alleged terrorism, mysterious breakdowns — recently Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun to look like the world’s most ill-fated experiment.
Is it really nothing more than bad [...]
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Jim Al-Khalili
Published: 12:01AM GMT 29 Jan 2008
For 700 years, the international language of science was Arabic
The untold story of Arabic brilliance should be a timely reminder of a proud heritage, says Jim Al-Khalili
Next year, we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the 150th of the publication of his On The [...]
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I love this dramatic image from the Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 7049, a so-called Brightest Cluster Galaxy. It is amongst the oldest and most massive galaxies in the universe.
The small faint points of light are globular clusters of young stars, and the halo – the ghostly, diffuse light surrounding the galaxy – is made [...]
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This story on Opticianonline highlights the risk for glaucoma patients of interpreting their religious fasting practices strictly.
It seems that some patients stop using their eye drops during periods of religious fasting, such as Ramadan.
A team led by Dr Nishant Kumar of University Hospital, Liverpool studied patient compliance in relation to fasting by analysing 350 surveys [...]
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Erica, Jacob and I drove over to the University of Hertfordshire’s Science Learning Centre at Bayfordbury yesterday for the University astronomy department’s open evening.
Our daughter (Jacob’s mum) and son-in-law, Doug, are both astrophysics PhD candidates at U Herts. Postgrads, including Doug, were on duty demonstrating various aspects of the department’s work. Doug, who’s involved in [...]
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This morning, a thousand delegates from some 150 countries to the International Baha’i Convention in Haifa, Israel, stood in silence as sirens sounded outside the Convention Centre to honour Holocaust Memorial Day. After this powerfully solemn and moving period, a delegate from Benin, who had been speaking when the sirens sounded, ended his contribution with [...]
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