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All about... Particle detection
What causes the Earth's magnetic field?
CSI: Geophysics
Recreating the Big Bang
How is physics used in archaeology?
Why does my car door give me electric shocks?
How do solar cells work?
London Science Uncovered
Large Hadron What?
All about Graphene
How do speakers work?
Are lightsabers possible?
Snake Power
Three alternative ways to charge your iPod
IceCube The Next Generation of Neutrino Astronomy
The IceCube Observatory will be looking for neutrinos. Buried under over a 1km of ice, the detector will be looking for flashes of light from the decay of neutrinos.
Radar, Police
RADAR speed detectors bounce microwave radiation off of moving vehicles and detect the reflected waves.
Dance of Chance
How patterns and fractals appear in many areas of the natural world, from originally random processes including metal depostions, termites and bacteria. An attractive non-technical introduction to ...
Skewered - Marvin and Milo
A Marvin and Milo activity about inertia. All you need is a metal skewer, apple, hammer and an adult to supervise.
Melting race - Marvin and Milo
A Marvin and Milo activity about conduction. All you need is a plastic container, a metal frying pan and two identical ice cubes.
Hands On Cern
An online course about particle physics and CERN with discussion of the standard model and information on particle accelerators and detectors.
CV of Georges Charpak
Georges Charpak (1914 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1992 for his invention and development of particle detectors.
Center for X-ray optics
A data bank relating to energy levels, x-ray properties of elements, synchrotron radiation, optics and detectors, with miscellaneous data.