Lab Notes
Ghost particles, a kilometre of ice, and a Nobe...
Ghost particles, a kilometre of ice, and a Nobel Prize There is a particle so shy that it can pass through the entire Earth — through rock, ocean, and you...
Ghost particles, a kilometre of ice, and a Nobe...
Ghost particles, a kilometre of ice, and a Nobel Prize There is a particle so shy that it can pass through the entire Earth — through rock, ocean, and you...
Density of the Earth
Henry Cavendish was born on 10 October 1731. In 2026 that birthday falls on a Saturday, inside a week otherwise owned by prize announcements. The experiment people mean when they...
Density of the Earth
Henry Cavendish was born on 10 October 1731. In 2026 that birthday falls on a Saturday, inside a week otherwise owned by prize announcements. The experiment people mean when they...
The 1966 recommendation
5 October is World Teachers' Day. UNESCO set the observance in 1994. The date was not chosen because a famous class happened to meet that morning. It marks a document:...
The 1966 recommendation
5 October is World Teachers' Day. UNESCO set the observance in 1994. The date was not chosen because a famous class happened to meet that morning. It marks a document:...
The prize that cannot be late
The 2026 Nobel announcements run on a clock. Physiology or Medicine on Monday 5 October, 11:30 CEST at the earliest. Physics on Tuesday. Chemistry on Wednesday. Literature on Thursday. The...
The prize that cannot be late
The 2026 Nobel announcements run on a clock. Physiology or Medicine on Monday 5 October, 11:30 CEST at the earliest. Physics on Tuesday. Chemistry on Wednesday. Literature on Thursday. The...
The two-day picture
On 1 October 1971 a patient at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon went into a machine that had not yet become ordinary. Godfrey Hounsfield, an engineer at EMI, had been...
The two-day picture
On 1 October 1971 a patient at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon went into a machine that had not yet become ordinary. Godfrey Hounsfield, an engineer at EMI, had been...
The plate he left out
The calendar keeps 28 September for Alexander Fleming and penicillin. It is a useful date and a slightly too-clean one. Fleming himself later supplied a dawn scene — waking on...
The plate he left out
The calendar keeps 28 September for Alexander Fleming and penicillin. It is a useful date and a slightly too-clean one. Fleming himself later supplied a dawn scene — waking on...