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Tag: c2021

With hopes of exploring deeper and deeper into space, creating a “constellation of satellites” for navigation to Internet service, and even distributing solar power collected from space directly to Earth (space-based solar power), we will need new solar cell designs to more efficiently power future endeavours in the final frontier. My research, based in the […]

Imagine you have the world’s best magnifying glass and you could zoom into objects indefinitely, what do you think you would see? The wonders of the cosmos have captured the imagination of many great thinkers, from Socrates to Galileo and Isaac Newton. Yet, while they may have stared up at the sky and wondered how […]

Since the Copernican model of the solar system we have known that the earth revolves around the sun. Efficiently harvesting sunlight will also be at the centre of our solution to the current global climate emergency. The Sun potentially represents a huge clean energy source, with approximately 120 terawatts of power hitting Earth from incident […]

Plastics are essential to modern living, they preserve our food, encase our electronics and are even in our toothpaste! However, most modern plastics are non-biodegradable, harmful to other animals and contribute to landfill. If we are to halt plastic pollution, we need sustainable alternatives, and quick! But do not fear, protein based materials such as […]

(or, a love letter to cyanobacteria) Cyanobacteria are little green critters that have been happily thriving in almost every habitat on this planet for the last 2.7 billion years. They were around long before creatures like us could even survive. In fact, cyanobacteria might very well be the reason you’re around to read this. Before […]

It seems like a weekly occurrence to hear of the latest huge data hack, exposing vast deposits of customer credit card details, patient records or other sensitive confidential information. This risk of cyber-attack only increases as our world become ever more connected and online, so governments and corporations have sought better ways to secure the […]

Scattered fragments from an interview with a quantum mechanic The Tower is built on spit and spite1 Q:      What is your project and why did you choose it? A:      When, between a session on the bongos and a lectio magistralis, Richard Feynman was asked about quantum mechanics, he had this to say: “I […]

Okay, not quite sea salt. But sodium, the 6th most common element on Earth, and regular feature at the dinner table (as sodium chloride table salt, don’t eat sodium metal!), could soon make batteries cheaper, and more sustainable.1–3 In modern batteries, a positive ion (an atom with less electrons than it would like, such as […]

Imagine you find a very nice cooking recipe online and you want to replicate it. You print it out and head to the kitchen. But when you get there, you realize that some of the steps have been printed several times. You begin to prepare the dish, but the repeated steps make it hard to […]