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The Great Molecule Hunt 2017

The Great Molecule Hunt 2017

Competitions

Shops and shoppers in Kirkwall will be back in action this year with the Great Molecule Hunt. It starts on Saturday 2 September to give the opportunity for two weekends of molecule hunting as […]

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The Great Molecule Hunt 2015

The Great Molecule Hunt 2015

Competitions Archive

Shops and shoppers in Kirkwall will be back in action this year with the Great Molecule Hunt. It starts on Saturday 29 August to give the opportunity for two weekends of molecule hunting as […]

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Win a night-sky photo in our new astronomy competition!

Win a night-sky photo in our new astronomy competition!

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Would you like a night-sky image on your wall, taken by the observatory above? Take part in our new astronomy competition!

The La Silla Observatory in Chile is part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the […]

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The Great Molecule Hunt 2013

The Great Molecule Hunt 2013

Competitions Archive

Shops and shoppers in Kirkwall were back in action with the Great Molecule Hunt. Twenty shops in and around the town centre joined in to set the challenge. Each shop had a model of […]

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North Ronaldsay night sky photography competition

North Ronaldsay night sky photography competition

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The skies above Orkney’s most northerly island are among the darkest in Europe. The winning images from the first two second annual competitions for North Ronaldsay night sky photographs shows the sharpness and clarity […]

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  • The Big Bang 2: A shift in the mist
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  • Eddington’s universe
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Cosmology

  • The Big Bang 3: Lemaître’s universe, Hubble’s law

  • The Big Bang 2: A shift in the mist

  • The Big Bang 1: The first ideas

Quantum physics

  • Higgs 8: Physics is worth a mass

  • Higgs 7: Three roads converge

  • Higgs 6: Can the circle be unbroken?

  • Higgs 5: The strong dominate the field

  • Higgs 4: Symmetry for the weak

  • Higgs 3: Symmetry for the strong

  • Higgs 2: What makes light matter?

  • Higgs 1: Frozen light

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    January 28th, 2013
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ABOUT OISF

A science festival has a radical role in developing a creative climate for a region. Here is the story of how it began, and how Orkney was involved from an early stage in the concept.

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