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A flaming good feeling: why science is nothing without experiments

24 Nov 2023

As a mature student with the Open University, Dan Roach rekindles his love of practical experiment

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Real deal Dan Roach (right) and his lab partner Leeaaron Jones feeling like proper scientists on the first day of their summer school at the Open University in Milton Keynes. (Courtesy: Dan Roach)
Bang! The Pyrex beaker is still intact but is now missing a significant quantity of its liquid conte

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Dan Roach is an IT consultant, flight instructor and Open University physics undergraduate in the UK. He is the author of Inside the Cyclone and blogs about aviation, space and science at danroachauthor.co.uk. You can follow him on X @dannydenfisch or on Facebook @danroachauthor
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