The quest for a life-like prosthetic hand

On not writing

Hey there, it’s been a while.

Unexpected News

At three in the afternoon on Monday October 30th, I locked my bicycle and stood uncertain of what to do next. I had arrived early for a meeting, so I decided to quickly scan my emails on my phone. One of them caught my eye: the subject was “Application outcome — Royal Society Summer Science…

March round-up

It’s already the middle of April and I’m doing a March round-up. I know what you’re thinking, Dimitra’s losing the plot!

It’s not that: I’ve been on holiday since the end of March. In warm, sunny Athens, mostly eating or lying on the sofa listening to sparrows chirping in the…

Computer Modelling

A few years ago I found myself in Aberystwyth, Wales, teaching Newton’s laws of motion to undergraduate sports science students. The topic was projectile motion, which is the motion of objects with no forces acting on them other than gravity. Basically, if we can assume that air resistance is…

Meet the Team: Dimitra

One of the purposes of this publication is to introduce the people behind the science. I want this message to be clear: we are regular people, not eccentric geniuses. Mostly, we were just lucky enough at some point in our lives to be encouraged into science.

Meet the Team: Hannah

I’ve mentioned Hannah before: she is one of our team members from Newcastle University, and attended the training day with me last month. It was a lot of fun chatting with her that day, and we agreed to have frequent Skype calls over the next couple of months as we are finalising our…

January round-up

I know what you’re thinking. Dimitra, these posts are all nice and good (if you’re feeling generous) or dreadful (if you’re not), but they have nothing to do with actually preparing the exhibit. Are you doing anything useful??