Comic 1147 - Evolving

It ain’t what you’d really call glamorous
When staphylococcus get amorous
But the methi-solution
That their evolution
Provides makes the nurses all clamorous.

Original comic here.

Comic 1145 - Sky Color

Let’s go ask a scientist guy
To account for the blue in the sky.
The light wavelengths short
Get through as they ought
But it isn’t violet, though. WHY?

Original comic here.

Comic 1142 - Coverage

You can’t call, text message or page
A man in a metal mesh cage.
I think this might be
Why the whole UFC
Roster’s always in such a great rage.

Original comic here.

Comic 1125 - Objects In Mirror

When gazing past Milky Way stars
Or glancing behind you in cars
That object in view
May be Neptuney blue
Though it seems to be redder than Mars.

Original comic here.

Comic 1123 - The Universal Label

Long ago, in the dark void ethereal
A material quite magisterial
Squeak-popped into view—
It all comes from H₂,
From CDs to sea hawks to cereal.

Original comic here.

Comic 1114 - Metallurgy

Antimony! What does it do?
Antimony! Don't have a clue.
Antimony! We
Know no use for Sb
And we're betting that neither do you.

Original comic here.

I studied chemistry up to the age of 18, and I'm pretty sure that no teacher, textbook or exam paper I encountered ever mentioned antimony even once, except just to sit there like astatine, taking up another space in the periodic table that could have been used for adamantium.

Comic 1091 - Curiosity

I didn’t spend last night in bars
Or googling powerful cars.
I’m ashen of face
And a touch off the pace
Cos they’ve landed a robot ON MARS.

Original comic here.

Comic 1080 - Visual Field

A prankster optician from Yuma
Would often (so sayeth the rumour)
Give patients a soaking,
Which practical joking
He liked to call “aqueous humour”.

Original comic here.

Comic 1039 - RuBisCO

There once was a chemist from Grays
Who bumped uglies in deviant ways.
For an extra frisson
To keep him turned on
His "safe word" was ribulosebiphosphatecarboxylaseoxegenase.

Original comic here.

I must apologise for going away for a few days without warning. Well, I am back now. The limerick for the next comic will follow quite soon.

Comic 975 - Occulting Telescope

An astronomer started to shout:
"There is now not a trace of a doubt"
(He gave a slight sob)
"That I'm in the wrong job –
These stars are all freakin' me out!"

Original comic here.

Comic 969 - Delta-P

The Pevensies' littlest daughter
Went hiding where she didn't oughtta
Then turned on the tap
And went for a nap
And Narnia flooded with water.

Original comic here.

[Edited the next day for scansion and spelling.]

Comic 967 - Prairie

The prairie! Th' American plain
With waves like the wild Spanish Main!
But on close observation
There's a transformation:
They're particles amber of grain.

Original comic here.

Comic 965 - Elements

There once was a man named Dmitri
Who said "No airbender can beat me!
I use with some elegance
All hundred-odd elements—
This table sets them out quite neatly."

Original comic here.

Here's some more Tinie Tempah-style half-rhyme. It's the future of the poet's favourite pastime. So don't race me or I'll leave you on the start line. You'll be silenced like a Paris boulevard mime.

Comic 964 - Dorm Poster

Dark Side of the Moon is the norm
To adorn the raw walls in your dorm.
Relate the straight version
To this great inversion
And neatly subvert that worn form.

Original comic here.

Comic 955 - Neutrinos

Light barrier broken? Aw, shucks!
But trying to urge caution sucks.
Instead, look for dudes
In excitable moods
And rinse them for two hundred bucks.

Original comic here.

Comic 941 - Depth Perception

The clouds that make lightning and thunder,
The stars and the planets we're under
All look far too flat;
If we could fix that
We'd gaze upwards in wide-eyed wonder.

Original comic here.

Starting to catch up after my break. More soon!

Classic comic 162 - Angular Momentum

There once was a girl from Marbella
Who spun like a Spitfire propeller.
The more the girl whirled
The slower th' world twirled
And the more secs she had with her fella.

Original comic here.

Comic 896 - Marie Curie

When buffers bang on about Curie
It brings me to boiling fury.
Our history's swimmin'
With brilliant women
So don't act like she's the whole story.

Original comic here.

Readers from the north-east of England may be able to ignore the "half-rhyme" tag for this limerick.

Comic 895 - Teaching Physics

That rubber-sheet image of gravity
Has quite a large logical cavity
But the maths is a bore
So please just ignore;
It's hardly the depths of depravity!

Original comic here.

Comic 892 - Null Hypothesis

There once was a lab tech from Hull
Who couldn't get into his skull
That nowt interesting
Can come from one's testing
Without an hypothesis null.

Original comic here.