Continuing the theme of X-Ray images on a Monday morning, here’s another. This is probably easy to guess at. If you look at the full size, you can see there is quite a lit going on in the device. More information under the cut.
Category Archives: science
X-Ray Monday
Now that the X-Ray systems are working well in the lab,, I can take X-Ray images of various things. I’ve been posting a few to twitter over the last few months with #hashtags like #xraymylunch #xraysaremagic and xraystuffinmylab for people to try to identify. This is the first I’ve posted here. The answer is under …
Science on the telly
I work on the Apocalypto Project – we read old & damaged scrolls and documents via a combination of x-rays and hardcore maths. We had a moment of fame earlier in the month – the project was mentioned on The One Show. Five minutes of video took a day to film – I wonder how …
Monumental science
It’s not commonly known that the Monument in London was constructed not only to commemorate the great fire, but also as a scientific laboratory. Two of the great scientists of the day, Hooke and Newton performed experiments in basic physics and materials science. Yesterday evening, some physicists, myself included from Queen Mary University visited with …
VHF Radio Coverage
I’ve just discovered a nice tool for plotting radio transmission coverage. Here’s where I can expect to get a signal too from my home location. Yellow shows 0.50 μV signal level, Green is the 1.58 μV signal level This seems to match up quite well with contacts I’ve had on the two-meter band, but with …