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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Scent of a kitten?
Scent of a Kitten: Perfumer Debuts ‘Kitten Fur’ Fragrance
http://www.livescience.com/58370-scent-of-kitten-fur-perfume.html
Carbon fibre: wonder material?
Carbon fibre: the wonder material with a dirty secret
Animals using tools
BBC News: Sea otters ahead of dolphins in using tools
Artificial flavours
What are the “natural flavors” in your food? Biotech is making the answer more complicated. | Popular Science
Large Hadron Collider
BBC News: LHC: Five new particles hold clues to sub-atomic glue
Meteorite hit spotted by Aberystwyth University
BBC News: Sighting of meteorite’s moon hit by Aberystwyth scientists
Swansea Bay update
BBC News: Theresa May signs £1.3bn Swansea Bay City deal
Isaac Newton, 400th anniversary of his death
Sir Isaac Newton 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (described in his own day as a “natural philosopher“) who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (“Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”), first published in 1687, laid the foundations of classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and he shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus