My blogging schedule is all over the place at the moment, but I still have time to bring you some neat things from the world of science:
Chemical party
Chemical reactions can get pretty wild, but I bet you’ve never seen them like this:
Strength in small numbers
Check out this amazing picture of an ant lifting 100 times its body weight – that’s like me hoisting 5 cars at the same time!
This photo won Dr Thomas Endlein of the University of Cambridge Zoology Department first prize in the Biotechnology And Biological Sciences Research Council science photo competition. You can see the other winners on the BBSRC site.
Well, it works for monkeys…
Did you know that learning to climb trees has much in common with the scientific method? This quaint short film explains it all – love the use of Wikipedia as “a source of reliable information”!
