Arch Bridge

Many years ago, I was lucky enough to work in “Launch Pad” in the science museum. There were lots of wonderful activities and the following blog posts are about the activities. Launch Pad has been replaced by the equally wonderful “Wonderlab” https://science-projects.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ch2.pdf https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/home https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/wonderlab-equinor-gallery Arch Bridge There are many different styles of bridge but the […]

Diary of an apprentice astronaut

Samantha salutes Leonard Nimoy aboard the ISS. Credit: NASA Samantha Cristoforetti‘s voyage as an apprentice astronaut took her from Houston to Japan to the legendary Star City in Russia. In this talk, she discussed the two hundred days she spent on the International Space Station. She revealed the joys and challenges of being in an […]

The last stargazers

Emily Levesque is a professor in the University of Washington’s astronomy department. Her research program is focused on improving our overall understanding of how massive stars evolve and die. Her first popular science book, The Last Stargazers, shares the tales and experiences of astronomical observing and comes out on August 4th, 2020! She has also […]

The end of the universe

We know the universe had a beginning and physicists agree that one day it will end, but cosmologist Katie Mack is obsessed with how it will finish. Will our universe collapse in upon itself, rip itself apart, or even – in the next five minutes – succumb to an inescapable expanding bubble of doom? Drawing […]

Optics for Fusion

by Institute of Physics: Oxford Centre Welcome to the crazy world of fusion optics… About this Event IOP Oxford Public Lecture: Optics for Fusion by Dr Alexandru Boboc from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Recorded on 22nd July 2020 This event was hosted as a Public Lecture by the Department of Physics at the […]

On gravity

A brief tour on a weighty subject Anthony Zee University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA https://www.physics.ucsb.edu/people/anthony-zee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Zee About the speaker Anthony Zee (b. 1945) is a physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. After graduating from Princeton, […]

What we still don’t know about black holes

Last year the first image of a black hole made headline news around the world. In this online lecture, leading astronomer Chris Impey explained why black holes occupy a special place in modern science and in the public mind. He revealed why the idea of an object with gravity so strong that even light can’t […]

Scattering atoms, electrons and perceptions

Talk by Dr Clara Barker Monday 20 July 2020 https://twitter.com/ClaraMBarker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barker http://users.ox.ac.uk/~engs1643/member_clara_barker.html https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lgbt-science_uk_5a8ef065e4b0746ba2acf7e5?guccounter=1 In this talk, Dr Barker provided an introduction to superconductors, their properties and main uses. She also discussed how her group produce thin film superconductors in the Centre for Applied Superconductivity as Oxford University, using pulsed laser deposition and magnetron sputtering. She […]

Why hasn’t the LHC found anything new

Tara Shears is professor of physics at the University of Liverpool and a researcher at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European centre for particle physics. Having started her career in Switzerland, Tara was subsequently awarded a Royal Society Research Fellowship with the University of Liverpool in 2000. She joined the LHC-B experiment at […]

What happened at the big bang?

9th June 2020 About the host Dr. Valerie Jamieson is creative director of New Scientist Events and hosts a programme of evening lectures, masterclasses and New Scientist Live. Previously she ran the New Scientist features desk and specialised in writing and editing features about the latest ideas in physics, astronomy and mathematics. She has a […]