Science in the News
September 2008
World's rarest tree frog found
Scientists recreate the Big Bang in Switzerland
Americans plan to drill for oil in Alaskan waters
Packaging chemical may cause heart problems
DNA tests used in fight against dog poo
Chinese go into space
Fight against malaria given money boost
Chinese astronaut walks in space
The Caspian sea monster
October 2008
The world's loneliest bacteria
Alien invaders hit U.K.
Indian space programme blasts off
Giant spider eats bird
Great White Shark killing display
November 2008
Russian submarine disaster
December 2008
Black hole confirmed at the centre of the Milky Way
February 2009
Genome of Neanderthals sequenced
Did climate kill off the Neanderthals?
Early human footprints found
March 2009
Are we alone in the Universe? Nasa launches Kepler space telescope
Obama to change law on stem cell research
Chimp planned attacks on zoo visitors
Dinosaurs more feathery than previously thought
Briton breaks wind-powered speed record
June 2009
New element discovered
World's rarest tree frog found
Scientists recreate the Big Bang in Switzerland
Americans plan to drill for oil in Alaskan waters
Packaging chemical may cause heart problems
DNA tests used in fight against dog poo
Chinese go into space
Fight against malaria given money boost
Chinese astronaut walks in space
The Caspian sea monster
October 2008
The world's loneliest bacteria
Alien invaders hit U.K.
Indian space programme blasts off
Giant spider eats bird
Great White Shark killing display
November 2008
Russian submarine disaster
December 2008
Black hole confirmed at the centre of the Milky Way
February 2009
Genome of Neanderthals sequenced
Did climate kill off the Neanderthals?
Early human footprints found
March 2009
Are we alone in the Universe? Nasa launches Kepler space telescope
Obama to change law on stem cell research
Chimp planned attacks on zoo visitors
Dinosaurs more feathery than previously thought
Briton breaks wind-powered speed record
June 2009
New element discovered
The Elements Song, by Tom Lehrer
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered.
My Favorite Science Songs
Try these links to listen to the best science songs on the internet:
Monty Python's Galaxy Song
Tom Lehrer's Elements Song
'Lithium' with sock puppets
Magnetism - Get Perpendicular
The Bloodmobile song by They Might be Giants
The Large Hadron Rap
Why Does the Sun Shine? by They Might be Giants
Radioactivity by Kraftwerk
The Reproduction Rap by Jamie Lee Spears
She blinded me with science featuring Dr. Magnus Pyke
Monty Python's Galaxy Song
Tom Lehrer's Elements Song
'Lithium' with sock puppets
Magnetism - Get Perpendicular
The Bloodmobile song by They Might be Giants
The Large Hadron Rap
Why Does the Sun Shine? by They Might be Giants
Radioactivity by Kraftwerk
The Reproduction Rap by Jamie Lee Spears
She blinded me with science featuring Dr. Magnus Pyke
A Non-Newtonian Liquid
From a Spanish TV show in which two guys run across a swimming pool filled with water and maisena! (you could do some research to find out how this is possible).
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