MRI Scans – How Gadolinium is so effective

I recently had an MRI scan for the first time and as I had no idea how an MRI scan works except it scans your body, so I decided to research a bit about the physics behind it. Electrons are located in shells and shells makeup orbitals. However, electrons only pair up in orbitals once […]

Electroplating – A Simple Process With An Effective Outcome

Ever wondered how a shiny piece of jewellery gets its shiny finish. Well in this post I will describe the rise in the plating industry, the process of electroplating and how people make a living off this common finishing practice. As the understanding of electroplating increased around the mid-1800s due to new understanding and development […]

Developing the production of molecules to produce synthetic drugs

My post today is about the new processes developed by researchers to produce different synthetic drugs by finding improved ways to generate molecules. Ketyl radicals allow scientists to convert simple molecules to complex structures in one chemical reaction. The use of ketyl radicals allows scientists a way to use catalysts in a more sustainable approach […]

The Infinite Hotel Paradox

In the 1920s, David Hilbert created a scenario for people to understand the complexity of infinity. He presented the idea through the infinite hotel paradox. He began with imagining a hotel with an infinite number of rooms and an infinite number of guests filling up the infinite number of rooms. A man approaches the manager […]

The Big Bang – How Can Something Come From Nothing

The universe, now about 91 billion light years in diameter, began as a hot and infinitely dense point. When this tiny singularity violently exploded, all matter, energy, space and time were created. Following this explosion came the radiation and matter eras. The radiation era is made of smaller stages which include the inflationary stage which […]

The Large Hadron Collider

The large hadron collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. With a tunnel of 27km in circumference and 175m deep, it is located beneath the France-Switzerland border near Geneva. With build starting around 1998 and finishing in 2008 having cost around $10billion, it now provides over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities […]

Ultrasound – The Physics Behind It

My post today is on the physics behind uses of ultrasound because, when touching upon this topic in a lesson, it got me wondering what the process is that allows things such as imaging of the inside of your body to be done to such a high level. Ultrasound is a sound wave with frequencies […]

Nanoparticles in medicine – large scale project, small scale production

I wanted my first post on science in today’s news to be about nanoparticles as it is a growing field and one that interests me a lot as I find it interesting how such a small-scale product is used in large-scale projects. The reason for the interest of nanoscience in scientific research is because of […]

How is it possible for light to act as both a wave and a particle?

I first came across this topic when it was introduced during a lesson and it really got me thinking as I always thought it was obvious that light had properties that made it only a wave. Until that lesson the knowledge I had, that would prove to me that light acted as a wave, was […]

Review of The Disappearing Spoon By Sam Kean

Initially when I picked this book up, it was my first science related book, so I didn’t really have an idea on how these types of books would be structured or the kind of style they would be written in. However, what I did expect was to be thoroughly educated on specific elements in the […]