Yesterday I spoke with Richard Glover on ABC 702 Sydney about research that suggests how Moses parted the sea in Exodus 14.
According to the team at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, a wind of 101 kilometres per hour, blowing steadily for 12 hours, could have pushed back waters 2 metres deep.
You can read more at ABC Science Online, plus you can listen to my interview below.
Recently I spoke with Richard Glover on ABC 702 Sydney about some research into one of Australia’s greatest thoroughbred horses, Phar Lap.
Associate Professor Ivan Kempson of Taiwan’s Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica in Taipei and Dermot Henry of Museum Victoria say they have confirmed the theory that Australian racehorse legend Phar Lap was killed by arsenic poisoning. Their report appears in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
You can read more in a story by Anna Salleh at ABC Science Online, plus you can listen to my interview below.
Recently spoke with Richard Glover from ABC702 about a new piece of research that may answer this question.
It’s not 100% solved, but it does provide some intriguing clues. The key seems to be nucleation points within the water, and how they affect the freezing point.
Michael Slezak wrote up the story for ABC Science Online. Another good version appears on Wired Science.
In an article published in the journal Science, the researchers speculate that the ability to taste carbonation may have evolved as a reaction to help humans avoid foods that are going off and have begun fermenting.
They claim that sour and bitter tastes often indicate foods that should be avoided, while sweet, salty, and the savoury taste sensation called umami, are those that can be beneficial.
Read more – http://bit.ly/12Nnfr
Engineers who invented a bra that converts into a gas mask and Irish police officers who mistakenly wrote tickets to ‘Driver’s Licence’ have lead the IgNobel prizes for 2009.
I spoke to Jennifer Byrne from ABC702 about the awards.
Read more on ABC Science Online.
