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26 January 2012
PM's 10 most plausible big-budget sci-fi films
Sometimes Hollywood gets the science right – or at least not completely wrong. With input from experts, we’ve picked sci-fi’s most plausible big-budget films.
24 November 2011
Space exploration takes a bold leap
It’s a question that has teased scientists, dreamers, fantasy writers – yes, and people like us – for centuries: is there, or has there ever been, life on Mars?
03 October 2011
Stretching prepares your body for exercise
Stretching before exercise is a sacred ritual, but researchers have been finding that it actually slows you down. 03 October 2011
Modern warfare
Many high-tech weapons are announced by military scientists and defence firms with great fanfare, then fade into obscurity once they face the realities of war.
03 October 2011
Speedboat for science
A professor builds a high-speed prototype that could change the way the US Navy builds ships.
03 October 2011
FREE communication on the Web
A radical new approach to thwarting internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.
03 October 2011
100 times more water on the moon than previously believed
Scientists studying samples of lunar rock retrieved during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission have found that the Moon’s interior may be far wetter than previously believed, according to an article recently published in the journal Science Express.
03 October 2011
Seeing-eye vest
Engineers at the University of Southern California have developed a vest that can guide people with visual impairments.
03 October 2011
Bacteriological battleground
This year’s E. coli outbreak sickened more than 3 900 victims and killed 52 people in Europe and North America. 03 October 2011
Rats!
Most lab rats have to be housed, fed and bred. But not the group Daniel Beard has in mind for his new systems biology centre. They'll be virtual.People are talking about
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