Creatures from the deep

Ok, it isn’t physics but how can I not love an animal who’s name translates from Latin as Bone Eating Snot Flower ? Electron microscope image of the head of the worm Cute isn’t it? More information over at deepsea news and the BBC

More ice and silicon pillars

My work has headed in a slightly different direction over the last couple of weeks, we’ve become much more interested in the nano-scale silicon spikes I described here . We are now pretty sure we can tie together the ice spike phenomenon with the silicon pillar spikes. We have good reason to believe the spikes …