Turbomachines
1.0. Introduction: On the 25th of August 2020, a Tokyo-based engineering company, SkyDrive Inc., carried out the first ever successful test of a piloted eVTOL (electric vertical…
Food Quality Testing using Spectroscopy
One of the most important factors of success in any industry is the quality of the products you sell. This…
Graphene
Graphene is one of the most exciting developments in material science in the last 50 years. Although originally discovered in…
Interview with Nobel Prize Physicist, Professor John Michael Kosterlitz (1)
Image Credits: Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud We were lucky enough to have an interview with Professor John Michael…
The marathon limit: just how fast can we go?
On the 12th of October 2019, a mark that was once seen as impossible was broken by Eliud Kipchoge. Crossing the…
Exploring the Indo-Australian Archipelago: The Wallace Line
Image credits: Journal of Biogeography, December 2019 Abstract Indonesia has the third largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world,…
Vertical Farming – A User’s Guide
Cities are grounded on mounds of rubbish, where humans live in tiny apartment complexes in towering skyscrapers. Earth has run…
Comparing two case studies of deforestation in Indonesia: The Grasberg Mine and the Aru Sugar Cane Plantation
Image credits: Sika Group Abstract The impending destruction of South East Asia’s tropical rainforests will impact one of the most…
Why are some alleles really dominant?
When learning about genetic crosses and the utility of Punnett squares, we benefit from the fact that some alleles are dominant,…