Beyond Science

Why do wind turbines look the way they do? As you might expect, the answer boils down to physics.  There are arguably three features of turbines which are worth explaining: their size (the length of the blades and hence how tall the turbine is), the number of blades they have, and the shape of the… Read more

I don’t know about you, but I think the Standard Model is quite elegant. If you’re not familiar with this term, it’s a theory which essentially describes all the matter and forces we have ever been able to observe. As I wrote in one of my previous articles, it is arguably the closest thing we… Read more