Science Omega Blog
Welcome to the Science Omega Blog. Here you'll find a roundup of the latest scientific goings-on, along with a few opinions and quips from the Editor.
Does new SPaG test show Gove’s lack of open-ended imagination?
This week, I ask whether it’s time for the British education system to rekindle its love affair with the open-ended outcome...
How I learned to stop worrying and love nuclear power
In this week's blog, I argue that society should accept atomic energy as the big, cuddly teddy bear that it so evidently is
The Greengrocer’s Guide to the Galaxy
In this week's blog, I discuss the prospect of extraterrestrial vegetables, and consider some of the wider benefits that might arise from intergalactic greenery
Lies, damn lies, and alcohol statistics
This week, I ask whether the fact that the United Kingdom has become a nation of clandestine tipplers is necessarily a bad thing
A spoonful of Shergar helps the ready meal go down
This week, I ask whether it’s worth getting worked up over the odd equine lasagne
Walking with dinobirds
This week, I take a look at animals that spend their time masquerading as other animals
Apocalypse how?
In what could well be my last ever blog, I accept that we’re living in the end times and consider how things are likely to pan out
Top five scientific moustaches
This week, ScienceOmega.com celebrates Movember by paying tribute to five of the finest ever scientific nose neighbours
Who cares about science?
This week, I ask whether or not we should be concerned about scientific apathy
Delays and dermatology - 2012: A Prague Odyssey
This week, I mention EADV 2012 in passing before reliving a hellish Thursday at Manchester Airport
Photographing the invisible
This week, I discuss the daunting task of examining what can’t be seen and suggest some possible explanations of dark energy
The passenger who cried wolf
This week, a guest blog on the perils and pitfalls of railing against our railways
As we are not nocturnal animals by nature, then we must benefit from sunlight, in several ways. It then follows that we can deal with sunlight - maybe we need to be more in touch with how to deal with exposure. This research shows that we do not know all the ways that we use sunlight naturally, which is probably true of other environmental factors. I will be very interested in outcomes of further research. Is there any research about sunlight and cognition?