@brooksci
Retired lab tech fond of science since Tomorrow’s World with Raymond Baxter. Occasional Boro fan #UTB, walking footballer, tea room hiker, Started piano at 65, life-long learner. #Dogs #Cats #film #science #walking #countryside #RNIB #Humanist
My favorite moment from today.
Kyiv.
I hope that after the war ends, millions of people from all over the world will come to this city. And maybe hundreds of them will do so because of my posts 😉
Tree with many thin fine branches hanging loosely down. Foreground is grey footpath while background is Misty Green field of park.
This leafless willow tree in Stewart Park North Yorkshire looks like it is flowing out from its trunk #BlueSkyArtShow #Flowing #photography #nature #trees
Mark Knopfler with the song of the day: m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRJ...
Ready, Set, Collide 💥
The Large Hadron Collider (#LHC) is gearing up to resume proton collisions. In this concluding physics run of #LHCRun3, proton beams will once again be delivered to the LHC experiments.
Well, look at that. My BBC documentary on the science of sound from years ago has just popped up on the BBC Earth Science channel. If you fancy some cool sound science in your day, here you go:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_u...
While many cannot visit Kyiv,
and perhaps not everyone will be able to even after the war,
I’m honored to be your eyes into my beloved city and country.
It lives.
Save this place for the future (or the present): Kitchen & Garden
www.instagram.com/kitchen.gard...
An infographic titled "The Chemistry of Mulled Wine" explores key chemical compounds in holiday ingredients. It features a central wine bottle surrounded by seven panels. Each panel identifies an ingredient, a key chemical, a molecular structure, and a brief description. Featured pairings include: orange (limonene), lemon (citric acid), sugar (sucrose), wine (ethanol), cloves (eugenol), nutmeg (sabinene), and cinnamon (cinnamaldehyde) for aroma and flavour profiles.
It's #NationalMulledWineDay (no, I don't know why it's in March of all months), so here's a look at some of the key chemicals in this warming drink's components: www.compoundchem.com/2014/12/16/m...
#ChemSky 🧪
Yes that would be fine. Thanks for asking 👍
Small blue and yellow bird, a blue tit, perched on side of round coconut feeder. Green branches of rose and bamboo surrounding with brown fence with bushes in background.
Blue Tit showing off its acrobatic skills this morning #BlueSkyArtShow #Round #photography #nature #birds
Isn’t it cool that the iron in our bodies came from a 5 billion year old supernova?
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
We are…..literally stardust
(🎤 drop)
#NephJC
Infographic titled “The 2026 Winter Olympics medals” shows gold, silver and bronze medals with ribbons. Gold medal value is $1,938 / £1,437 and is 500 g silver with 6 g gold plating. Silver medal value is $1,003 / £744 and is 500 g of 99.9% silver. Bronze medal value is $5.13 / £3.81 and is 420 g copper. Text notes medals use recycled metals from the Italian State Mint and have protective coatings.
As the Winter Olympics draw to a close, what are the medals that the top athletes will be taking home made of? This graphic takes a look and also highlights the values of each medal: www.compoundchem.com/2026/02/22/w...
#ChemSky 🧪
Greetings from Kyiv.
Today, I came to visit them.
To say thank you –
our fallen Heroes 💔
River Tees in foreground with dockland wall. Temenos sculpture and Transporter in the background . Lots of grey cloud.
Temenos and Transporter Bridge today in the dockland Middlehaven area next to the Middlesbrough FC stadium. Also can see the restoration of the old 3 faced dock clock. #photography #middlesbrough
Not posted in a while.. 😉 Photograph the alphabet with no typography.... Look, then look again, reflections, shadows, letters are everywhere 😎… see you all tomorrow 📷 🌳 🌾👒☀️
💃🏻🎶Louis Armstrong 🎶🕺🏻
🎶🕺🏻🌱🎶’What A Wonderful World 🎶💃🏻🌱🎶
#Nature #Photography #ECK #Breathe #BeKind #MHA #MentalHealthAwareness
Thoroughly enjoyed the courage skill and great sportsmanship displayed by every Olympian at the #winterolympics from #MilanoCortina2026 and so picturesque too. Great presenting by the BBC team especially Hazel Claire & Jeanette who work tirelessly to make the job look easy, also Crammy Ed & Tim ⭐️🔥☃️🥇
Congratulations Switzerland, GB and Canada on bronze, silver and gold in the curling! You have kept us all utterly entranced. Thank you.
Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...
The iconic Earthrise photograph. Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders took this photo on Christmas Eve 1968.
Screen shot of Olympians immediately after the skeleton event at the Winter Olympics. 6 people in line across screen Team GB Gold medalists Tabitha Stoecker and Matt Weston in the middle in blue
Many congratulations to Team GB’s Tabitha Stoecker and Matt Weston for their Gold Medal in the Mixed Skeleton event at the #Milano-Cortina #winterolympics
Happy picture of the gold medal podium at the Winter Olympics courtesy of sky tv Competitors are in blue white and cream outfits, one behind the other. Snow in background. Charlotte and Huw in blue.
Many congratulations to Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes for their sensational racing today.
Their Gold medal in the Snow Board cross mixed team event at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics is the first ever GB gold won on snow at any Winter Olympics
#snowboard #winterolympics #Milano-Cortina
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
An infographic titled "Compositions of UK Coins" details the metallic makeup of British currency. The £2 coin features a bi-metal design with a copper-zinc-nickel outer ring and a copper-nickel inner circle. The £1 coin shows pre-2017 compositions and notes the 2017 shift to a twelve-sided bi-metal design. The 50p and 20p coins are copper-nickel alloys, with the 50p having been resized in 1997. The 10p, 5p, 2p, and 1p coins all transitioned from copper-based alloys to plated steel in 2011 and 1992.
This day in 1971 was #DecimalDay, when UK currency switched from the old pounds, shillings and pence to the current decimal coinage. This graphic examines the compositions of the coins currently in circulation and how they've changed over the years: www.compoundchem.com/2014/03/27/t...
Fir tree in the park. Many trunks and branches. Copper coloured leaves on floor in foreground with Green field behind. Misty day with grey sky
60 years ago we had a family picnic under this tree in Stewart Park Middlesbrough. Some of the family are no longer with us but the tree is still there as a happy reminder of carefree days. #BlueSkyArtShow #Wood #photography
Hedge and Green field leads to snow covered hill, Roseberry Topping, just outside Middlesbrough
Roseberry Topping under grey skies and a dusting of snow today in North Yorkshire #photography #weather
Saltburn pier leading across Shingle beach into grey sea and grey clouds
Saltburn pier is OK after recent strong winds and rain but the beach has lost much of its sand and at the moment is mostly shingle. #photography #weather
Infographic detailing the chemistry behind four kitchen chemistry hacks. The first is slowing fruit browning. Fruits brown due to the oxidation and polymerization of phenols. Adding acids, such as lemon juice, wrapping the fruit in cling film or otherwise blocking oxygen slows browning by reducing the activity of the polyphenol oxidase enzyme.
Today is #NationalCornChipDay! The secret to a smooth nacho cheese sauce to accompany them is a compound with an appropriate chemical formula – one of four kitchen chemistry tricks highlighted in this edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-sc...
Greetings from Kyiv,
that survived another russian night attack.
2,600 high-rise buildings are now without heating
(in addition to the 1,100 that will remain without it this season).
We still have some.
In a few days, frosts will return.
I don’t know how to make the world listen.
Ukrainian Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych has expressed gratitude to his fellow Ukrainians for their words of support.
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