About half of the people in the UK doubt that global climate change is man-made. My experience of Aussies so far is that the percentage here must be at least that high. Why do so many people doubt what the vast majority of scientists agree...

Scientist John McLennan thought he’d study the difference between antique baroque violins and modern romantic ones. He built an old-style instrument by hand, had people play it, measured its acoustic characteristics, and then repeated these...

Most people have heard of black holes: when a big chunk of matter (like a star) no longer has sufficient internal pressure to withstand its own gravity it can collapse and suck in anything that comes past a line called its event horizon. They’re weird,...

They’re doing very cool things with very thin, very flexible capacitors. Soon you may be able to store charges in sheets of paper. Posted in science Tagged: batteries, nanotubes

V and I went to Sydney’s The Basement last night to see Slowhand, an Eric Clapton tribute band. It was actually more of a revuew, as there were about 10 of them and they alternated singers and some of the musicians. They were a good time, though. They...