Boring Science Produces Awesome results The simple scientific observation that you can't use the same energy twice is absolutely awesome! This is a further article in my occasional series about coal…

How Can Ice Work Like A Horse? In this short series of articles about coal, engines and energy I am trying to show something of  the history behind our current knowledge of heat, energy and…

Dirty Coal And Boring Science There was a time when, through the proliferation of steam power, coal extraction in vast quantities became economically viable.  Throughout the U.K. coal was burned…

King Coal And The Heat Values Of Fuels A Potted History Of The Human Use Of Coal The term 'coal' covers many different materials with a common property: they are materials high in carbon which were…

After posting the thought on facebook, I have decided to begin a blog on this topic. The blog will track my day-to-day research on the subject. Once finally compiled and completed, further action…

After Top Gun, the number of fighter pilot recruits exploded. After CSI took over the country, more people went into forensic science. The lesson? Media definitely makes a difference in the level of…

Nanotechnology is a big buzzword this decade but there are questions about how safe nano-based products are and we are unsure how to even measure,  much less regulate, them. Anti-odor socks,…

You have to know your CO2! When I wrote Your CO2 Is Bad For You In Your Space Suit I was not talking about the EPA. Here I will not talk about the life's CO2 exchange cycle either unless I have…

Why is the Fourier Transform so useful both in theoretical and applied science and engineering?  In short, often it is more convenient to solve a problem in Fourier space than the space of the…

We are aware of the large and small. We can, for example, taste and smell the earthy but invisible Streptomyces coelicolor. This soil-dwelling bacterium might have been in…