here are the groundbreaking pictures first seen in the 1960’s of a developing embryo in its mothers uterus. Truly marvellous!

Lovely day out in Cambridge yesterday- the sun was shining and the refreshments particularly good. Best of all the town came back in the second half from 2-0 down with only ten men to win the game 4-3.

Can you train your brain by doing memory exercises? Can you lower the mental age of your brain?

Lots of people either seem to think so, or they think they can  make others believe that they can make improvements to their brain fitness. What exactly is the science behind these claims and are they true or is it a con? What do you think? Do you do puzzles or memory games?

read here to find out more.

sorry about the advertising – can anyone get this to work? apparently Charles II used to use the blind spot trick to ‘decapitate’ the condemned before they had their heads chopped off !

This experiment worked very well today
Students were able to heat the mineral oil (paraffin) with the porcelein chips as a catalyst. Very quickly ethene is produced and collected under water. this was tested with orangy yellow bromine water which turned colourless.

10 ways to stay fresh in the heatwave

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8124218.stm