By Pat, 22 March 2013
Diamonds hold a special place in our imagination: they’re valuable, extremely hard, and sometimes just really pretty. Chemically speaking, diamonds are simple – they’re carbon. Carbon is an important element. All living things are made of compounds that contain carbon. One property of carbon is its ability to form allotropes. Allotropes contain the same element, […]
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By Pat, 15 March 2013
Birds are an important part of many ecosystems. New Australian research shows that bird feathers could be used to measure just how healthy some ecosystems are.
By Pat, 23 February 2013
Symmetry can be tricky, especially when you’re a chemist. Grab some plasticine and discover why a mirror doesn’t always make a perfect copy.
By Pat, 4 January 2013
How would you find out where to strike gold? Turns out termites might have the answer.
By Pat, 21 December 2012
As this year draws to a close, let’s have a look at some of the big stories in science for 2012. In July, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider announced they may have found evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson.
By Pat, 14 December 2012
Do you have left over fruit and vegetable scraps? One day you might be able to use them to clean up the environment!
By Pat, 30 November 2012
A research team on board Australia’s Marine National Facility research vessel, Southern Surveyor, have made an unusual discovery: an island that isn’t there.
By Pat, 23 November 2012
Written by Jarrod Green If Lawrence Bragg was still alive he really could be boastful. This November marks the centenary of crystallography. It’s a powerful technique Bragg helped to develop for studying the structure of chemicals.
By Pat, 20 November 2012
Chemical formulas, such as H2O (water) and CO2 (carbon dioxide), are handy as they identify which atoms are present in a chemical compound. This can in turn help to make predictions about their properties. But only knowing which atoms make up a compound sometimes isn’t enough. It helps to know how the atoms are arranged.
By Jasmine Fellows, 17 November 2012
Follow these instructions and create a work of art out of bubbles, while learning some maths.
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