Windbelt - Reinventing wind power

22/04/2010

Think about wind energy, and chances are you’ll picture a wind turbine. If so, it’s time to think again.

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Alien spotting comes down to Earth

26/03/2010

Spying on little green men or other extraterrestrial life forms just got a whole lot easier.

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6 Things you may not know about the afterglow of the big bang

24/02/2010

Marcus Chown tells us all about the ‘afterglow of creation’ – commonly known as the cosmic background radiation.

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Hyperthermia - Cancer therapy hots up

12/02/2010

Forget surgery: in a few years’ time, cancerous tumours might be kept in check with a new treatment using heat.

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Satellites on the blink

21/01/2010

There are over 500 of them keeping a watchful eye over us from the skies... No, not guardian angels, satellites. Could we cope without them?

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Emotionally adaptive gaming

18/12/2009

Ever thrown a video game controller at the wall in frustration? Emotionally adaptive gaming might not solve your anger management issues, but it could help.

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Top 4 Bonkers things about the universe

01/12/2009

What would happen if the sun were made of bananas? Astronomer Marcus Chown shares his 4 craziest facts about the universe with us.

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Cutting the cord - Wireless electricity

17/11/2009

First came cordless phones, then wireless internet. The next step to making our lives truly mobile is getting rid of the tangles of power cables lurking in our homes.

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SODIS - A place in the sun

15/10/2009

Clean water is one of the world’s scarcest resources. Could it finally be time to shine for solar disinfection?

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Boobs, Babes and Blood

08/10/2009

For the average physicist, you might expect typical study subjects to include atoms or distant galaxies. But the researchers in UCL's medical physics department are far from average.

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