Science Factoid Of The Day

As stated yesterday the LHC collisions are at 7 x 10^12 EV of energy at the moment, which sounds a lot until you realise a cup of coffee has...

You'll be able to identify experimental physicists (Leonard's) right about now by the high fives they'll be giving each other an...

At the heart of the Matter,” “She has such a big heart.” English is full of such phrases that use the word “heart.” All of them stress the i...

The largest island by area is Greenland at 2,130,800 sq/km beating New Guinea (785,753 sq/km) by quite a way. N.B Australia is of course lar...

My main thing for the weekend this time is the Forrest Gump of periodic tables (you never know what your going to get out) every element in ...

A bowling pin needs a tilt of 7.5 degrees to fall.

Today’s factoid is posted in the spirit of information being power. Tomorrows will be a lighter one I promise. Cancer is a term used for whe...

The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago - it spent most of this time passing through the...

The fourth dimension is part of our lives whether we like it or not. That’s because the fourth dimension is time. When you make a graph of p...

“You never hear the one that hits you” was the fatalistic saying on the front trenches of many wars (not to mention the song of the same n...