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Big Science, Little Science Two Science stories to stir the imagination

Two Science things that popped into my awareness today:

Big Science:
Only just heard about this: a 1km Ice-cube neutrino detector
Just breathtaking and full of sciencey awesomeness

Small Science:
Lovely inspirational story: Eight-year-old children publish bee study in Royal Society journal not likely to happen at most primary schools but wonderful none the less

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So the day after I saw Prof Brian Cox on Newsnight discussing the issue of science funding I was looking through my son Eric's folder of this terms work that he had brought home for the last day of term.

One piece stood out, following lessons on Leonardo Da Vinci, the class had been asked to invent something for the future

below I present Eric's plans (Rough and final) for:

LHC2

for those of you who don't read 10yearold-ese the text reads:

The Hadron Clider (collider) No2
This is an improved Hadron Collider
If you do not already know what it does it collides very small things together to get smaller things/
The smallest thing we know about is a quark
Mine is even more powerful and will be able to collide quarks together and find something even smaller

Sounds good to me - go Eric

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