'A Neutron Walks Into A Bar' - Out Now!

The day has arrived at last! A Neutron Walks Into A Bar is available online and in bookshops around Ireland from today.

Let us know what you think of the book via Twitter using #neutron.

All royalties go directly to cystic fibrosis research. For more information about this partnership, click here.

A Neutron Walks Into A Bar (RRP €14.99) is available through:

'A Neutron Walks Into a Bar' Available to Pre-Order on Amazon Now!

The Science 140 book, 'A Neutron Walks Into a Bar', is available to pre-order on Amazon now. Our book contains thousands of science and nature facts, descriptions, poems, biographies, jokes and experiments - all in less than 140 characters (tweet sized). It's the perfect coffee-table / toilet book for the science geek, pub quiz merchant or anyone wanting to update their "useless information bank". Buy one, buy fifty. But most importantly, by purchasing 'A Neutron Walks Into A Bar', you will be helping fund research projects with the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland. Exciting times! Here is the Amazon description:

Fun, quirky and informative, A Neutron Walks Into A Bar... is a collection of facts, definitions, explanations, biographies and jokes guaranteed to quench a thirst for knowledge, discovery and humour that's out of the ordinary.

A Neutron Walks Into A Bar

It's been almost a month since the Science 140 project finished collating tweets so we think it's time for an update.

Firstly, thank you so much to everyone who contributed to #Science140. The final tally was staggering with thousands of tweets (over 60,000 words worth!) written by hundreds of contributors. The team spent many hours intensely reading tweet after tweet trying to pick the best for the book. This was a difficult job considering the high quality of the submissions we received. Everyone certainly rose to the challenge of condensing complicated topics into bite-size science!

We are delighted to announce that we have secured a book deal and our first draft is now submitted. Inspired by #Science140 tweets, the title of the book is A Neutron Walks Into A Bar. All proceeds of the book are going to research into cystic fibrosis through our partners in the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland.

A Neutron Walks Into A Bar will be published this October. We'll be keeping you up-to-date with news via this website and @Science140.

Thank you so much for making this project a success!

The Science 140 Team
Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain, Humphrey Jones, Maria Delaney & Paul O'Dwyer

Meet Our Partnership Charity - Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland

The Science 140 team are delighted to announce the Cystic Fibosis Association of Ireland (CFAI) as our partnership charity. As we stated at the beginning of the project, our aim is to collate your submitted tweets in to a entertaining, informative and fun book - with all proceeds of the sale of that book going to charity. We have been working behind the scenes over the past few weeks, ironing out details with the CFAI on how best to target the funds raised and now we can finally confirm the details.

Ireland has the highest rate of Cystic Fibrosis in the world, with approximately 1 in every 19 Irish people carrying the CF gene. Where two carriers parent a child together, there is a 1 in 4 chance of the baby being born with CF. Sadly, CF is Ireland's most common life-threatening inherited disease. 

The CFAI offer support and assistance to people with CF and their families but also help fund research projects in Irish universities. As the members of the Science 140 team all have a background in science, the CFAI have agreed that the funds raised during the project will be targeted towards their research projects! A total of four research projects are currently being funded by CFAI in conjunction with the Health Research Board (HRB) and the Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG). Briefly, these are:

• The role of mucus and mucins in mediating Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonisation of the cystic fibrosis lung - Principal Investigator: Dr. Marguerite Clyne, University College Dublin 
• National Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis and Parents: Impact on Health and Quality of Life - Principal Investigator: Prof Eileen Savage, University College Cork 
• Gender differences in muscle dysfunction and electrical muscle stimulation in cystic fibrosis - Principal Investigator: Prof Charles Gallagher, St. Vincent's University Hospital 
• Genetic Modifiers of the CF Phenotype - Principal Investigator: Dr Ed McKone, St. Vincent's University Hospital / University College Dublin 

Further research involving Cork University Hospital will be announced in the near future too. We are delighted to be working in partnership with the CFAI and the research groups and we hope that our proposed book will be a success! In the last three weeks we have collected over 700 excellent science related tweets - way above our expectations. We will continue to collect your tweets over the next few months and will begin the process of selecting the best 1500 for the finished product! Keep your tweets coming and look out for daily challenges!