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PhD student wins Three Minute Wonder contest with talk on printing jelly
25 May 2018
PhD student Kate Oliver won the grand final of our Three Minute Wonder (3MW) science communication challenge on 22 May with a talk on 3D printing of jelly
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585BC A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted, during what would become known as the Battle of the Eclipse between the Medes and the Lydians. The precise knowledge of this date, combined with the ability to calculate the dates of other eclipses, allows other historical dates to be determined accurately
- 1998 Pakistan begins a series of nuclear-weapon tests
- 2002 The Mars Odyssey spacecraft discovers ice
- 1872 Birth of Marian Smoluchowski, the pioneer of statistical physics
- 1879 Birth of Milutin Milankovic, known for his theory of ice ages that suggested a relationship between long-term variations in the Earth's climate and changes in its orbit.
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