Wear your heart on your sleeve

15/12/2008

For those times when a Facebook 'poke' just isn’t enough, you will soon be able to send your friends a hug they can actually feel.

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Snake Power

20/11/2008

One of the most efficient wave power systems to date looks like a duck. But can it defend its title faced with the mighty Anaconda?

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

05/11/2008

What will be in astronauts' lunch boxes when they go to Mars? Soggy sandwiches, squishy bananas and crisps are unlikely to make the cut.

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Large Hadron What?

04/09/2008

The LHC has been switched on, but what about you? Taking our quiz is the only way to find out...

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Recreating the Big Bang

01/09/2008

…. Or almost. Switch on for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN happened on 10 September 2008, marking the beginning of a physics experiment which will recreate conditions last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

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Molecules at the Movies

30/07/2008

Physicists have made hydrogen and methane molecules into unsuspecting movie stars thanks to a revolutionary new measurement technique.

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Keep your ears peeled

25/06/2008

What do bats, submarines and doctors have in common? They all rely on sound to ‘see’ better.

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Secret of Spider-man Suit Revealed

01/01/2008

Physicists have found the formula for a
"spider-man" suit, drawing inspiration from the amazing wall-clinging ability of geckos, and the ingenious properties of velcro.

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Enigma of the Singing Dunes

01/01/2008

When Marco Polo encountered the weird and wonderful noises made by sand dunes, he attributed them to evil spirits. 700 years later, scientists still don’t completely understand the cause of this eerie phenomenon...

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The Science of His Dark Materials

01/01/2008

Did you know that many of the fantastical ideas from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy have a basis in real science?

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