Heat Transfer
Cartoon by JAC
Category: Other
Lab Rat
Next time – stilton, or find yourself a new lab rat Cartoon by JAC
Primitive Physics
Cartoon by JAC
Launchball
Launchball created by the Science Museum The Science Museums Award Winning game for 8 year olds and up. Get balls from the starting position to the goal by using components such as fans, conveyor belts etc. WARNING this game gives you the option to create an account, this is not an YSJ feature and will […]
Submit an Article
Article Submissions are now closed over the Holiday Season. Article Submissions will re-open working week beginning January 3rd 2017. If you are preparing an article for submission you will require: Your scientific (or related article) in word document format – with all figures inserted as high quality images and full references in the Chicago Style. A […]
After the Big Bang…
This entry will describe what I’ve done since the Big Bang Fair. I’ll elaborate on certain aspects at a later date, since tomorrow I’m catching the train to Paris and the EUCYS and might not have access to the internet! One of the first things that happened after the Big Bang Fair was that […]
Pigeon outperforms internet (updated)
In a brilliant example of old technology outdoing its replacement a homing pigeon successfully transferred 4GB of data faster than an ASDL internet connection. The experiment was done by an IT company in South Africa. Employees flew the pigeon between their offices 60 miles apart while simultaneously sending the data over the internet. The pigeon […]
The difficult second blog post
Today, I’m going to discuss the project I completed at the University of Sheffield last summer, funded by the Nuffield Bursary Scheme, as well as the Big Bang Fair, at which I exhibited said project. So, in Year 11 I decided to Google “sixth form science bursary” because I was a bit of a […]
The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
The Royal Society celebrates the very best in popular science writing. Ever since the Prizes were originally established in 1988 they have had the same aim – to encourage the writing, publishing and reading of good and accessible popular science books. They have grown to become one of the UK’s most prestigious non-fiction literary prizes […]
Hello world!
Hi, I’m Courtney and this is my first post on YS Journal. I thought I’d start by saying how I got into physics in the first place. My story isn’t as cool as being a child maths prodigy or having a crazy inventor relative who inculcated me with a love of science in addition to […]
A Short Tour of the Cryosphere
Even though most of us do not live in the polar regions or don’t even see icebergs or ice sheets very often, no matter where you live, the snow and ice of the Earth’s cryosphere has an impact on your climate. NASA released an amazing new view of Earth’s frozen regions today, using visual satellite […]
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Should we go back to the Moon?
With the celebrations of the Apollo Moon landings in recent days many people have been discussing the future of manned space travel. I am far to young to have witnessed the Moon landings myself, but everybody I speak to about it talks of the excitement of seeing those grainy pictures of men walking on the […]
Meeting with Malcolm
Yesterday I and Malcolm had two hours meeting,discussion all aspects of technical issues…. We also noticed tha our publisher has acted speedily to implement our integration strategy that we agreed during the Telephone Conference on Monday 13th July.
Website Redesign
As you may have noticed, the website has gone under a significant redesign over the last few days. The decision was taken at the last major teleconference that the YSJ plus site should be made into the full YSJournal.com while the old site should be phased down to just the articles. This way our publishers […]
Meet the Team
The Young Scientists Journal Team2019-20 Team Leaders Celestine Wenardy Chief Editor Celestine is a talented young scientist who lives in Indonesia, and has significant experience in original research and publication, having recently worked to research affordable methods for non-invasive blood glucose concentration monitoring for diabetics, a project which is now in development. She is passionate […]
YSJ Issue 5
Table of Contents Young Scientists Journal 2008 | September-October | Volume 1 | Issue 5 COVER STORY How Can Science save the Earth? Christopher Barry ARTICLES Hydrogen as an Alternative Fuel Christopher Barry Investigating the velocity of a dominoes wave Aaron McCullough Measuring the velocity of toppling dominoes Abigail Clarke Where will Science take us in the […]
What's the point of learning this?
One of the things I often asked when I was at school was “When will we ever use this?” It was a regular problem for our teachers that often the abstract science and maths we learnt would have little use outside the classroom. However some of it is useful and here I present a case […]
What’s the point of learning this?
One of the things I often asked when I was at school was “When will we ever use this?” It was a regular problem for our teachers that often the abstract science and maths we learnt would have little use outside the classroom. However some of it is useful and here I present a case […]