If you'd spent your entire scientific career getting nominated for the Nobel Prize ... nominated by all your students and collaborators, many of whom were Laureates themselves ... nominated more times than anyone else, ever ... and yet you never won the damn thing ... how would *you* feel if you met the chaps who received a Nobel for an experiment that utterly failed to find the very thing it was looking for? Chris tells James the story of Michelson, Morley, and their attempts to nail down the luminiferous aether.

Science, possibly.
A podcast in which James Lees and Chris Stewart share stories that are definitely science-adjacent.

On twitter: @SciencePossibly
Chris is at kipstewart.com
James tweets @jamesdoessci

We're sold a lie in school, that science follows a simple path from idea to understanding, from hypothesis to test, from abstract to conclusion. The path of research is never so flat, it's covered in bumps and cracks and sometimes great big sinkholes too. James shares his own personal research journey, along with a packet of nummy smokey-flavoured crickets.

Science, possibly.
A podcast in which James Lees and Chris Stewart share stories that are definitely science-adjacent.

On twitter: @SciencePossibly
Chris is at kipstewart.com
James tweets @jamesdoessci

Bit of advice? Don't call your next project your "Operation Moonshot" unless it's a suitably grand mission deserving of the title. If you do, kick the deadline down the road a bit, give Future You time to work out the details. Whatever you do, don't announce a shiny new, £100b COVID mass testing system to save the population and the economy, that you'll definitely roll out in, say, a month, maybe two. James tells Chris the sorry tale of the UK government's grandiose plan that, far from getting to the moon, didn't even make it to the launchpad.

Science, possibly.
A podcast in which James Lees and Chris Stewart share stories that are definitely science-adjacent.

On twitter: @SciencePossibly
Chris is at kipstewart.com
James tweets @jamesdoessci