Rashid's Blog: A Place for Inquisitive Souls

(This month’s featured image is a photo of the Carina Nebula taken by NASA’s James Webb telescope. It’s a vast cloud of gas and dust, slowly …

The Universe Evolves

The woman known to the world as Madame Curie entered the world on November 7, 1867, as Marya Salomea Sklodowska. The youngest of five children, she …

The Elements of Marie Curie | Dava Sobel

Found this in my book cupboard with no idea how it got there. A fat 500+ page 2019 paperback from apparently a proper British publisher, but …

Life, Love, Death in Maria Popova’s Book “Figuring”

What is the size of a single molecule of oil? What may initially seem like a trick question – answerable only through the use of complicated, high-…

Estimating the Size of a Single Molecule of Oil Using Water