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Jumbo trouble
01 January 2007

Jumbo trouble

The Airbus A380 was supposed to be the future of aviation. Will it ever get off the ground?  

The threat is out there
01 January 2007

The threat is out there

More than 100 000 asteroids hurtle past our planet. But only one – that we know of – may hit us in the next 30 years  

Fun with supermagnets
01 December 2006

Fun with supermagnets

The MythBusters are notorious for their obsession with magnets. And, as you might expect, Jamie and Adam use them in some pretty extreme ways – like climbing walls, for example. 

GooTube is dead
01 December 2006

GooTube is dead

Google bought eyeballs when it bought YouTube, and it also bought itself a legal headache that will hopefully lead to some better laws around digital copyright  

The real artificial reality
01 December 2006

The real artificial reality

In a world where ‘artificial’ has become perfectly respectable, is anything what it seems?  

Blood on the tracks
01 October 2006

Blood on the tracks

David Hume wrote that reason is a ‘slave to the emotions’. But new research suggests that, in our moral decision-making, reason and emotion fight it out within the mind  

Bring on the Bling
01 October 2006

Bring on the Bling

You spend months preparing. Then you get to the start line, and it’s all downhill  

China’s secret war
01 September 2006

China’s secret war

A spate of recent spying cases opens the lid on China’s aggressive military buildup. What’s ironic: it is based largely on US technology. 

Crash Test
01 September 2006

Crash Test

In the pursuit of private spaceflight, a group of Texas rocket enthusiasts aren’t afraid to blow up a few engines. 

Patent pitfalls
01 September 2006

Patent pitfalls

How to make sure your start-up starts up  
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