Sarah Kendrew selects interesting and notable ResearchBlogging.org posts in the physical sciences, chemistry, engineering, computer science, geosciences and mathematics. She blogs about astronomy at One Small Step.
[Cross-posted from ResearchBlogging News.]
In astronomy the talk is all of exoplanets at the moment, but it’s good to remember our own Solar System is just as weird and wonderful as these new foreign worlds. On Basic Space, Kelly Oakes talks about new weather models on Titan. Cloudy with a chance of methane!
It’s a beautiful game that transcends politics, class and conflict – or so we like to think. Scientists in Japan, however, see football as “a competitive relationship between two cooperative networks“. So there. On Science Left Untitled, Charles describes this interesting new study of the network dynamics of football.
Wait, what was I saying about exoplanets again? The latest story to emerge last week was that our Galaxy may well contain more planets than stars, which is quite an amazing claim. Greg Fish dissects the paper and its methods on weird things.
That’s all for the week! I’ll be back next Monday with more physical sciences picks.


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