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The latest robotic offering from Boston Dynamics is quick, agile and looks like it may just keep you awake at night, as well as potentially putting many factory workers out of a job. Video...
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The man who saw the number Pi in dreams
On January 16, 1913, a letter revealed a genius of mathematics. The missive came from Madras, a city – now known as Chennai – located in the south of India. The sender was a...
2016 Nikon small world
Nikon’s Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. The Photomicrography Competition is open to anyone with an interest in...
The myth of superfoods
Berries that can protect us from cancer, fruits that prevent cardiovascular diseases or seeds that help us to combat depression. The properties and supposed benefits of superfoods are such that every year we discover...
Fusion energy explained
Fusion is the process which powers the sun and the stars. It is energy that makes all life on earth possible. It is called ‘fusion’ because the energy is produced by fusing together light...
Fermi Paradox
The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where...
Hitler’s Jurassic monsters
This is the untold story of a Nazi vision, that went far beyond the military conquest of European countries. As part of their crazed dream to create a thousand-year Reich they developed detailed blueprints...
A Brief History of Time
Watch Errol Morris’s A Brief History of Time, the 1991 biographical documentary film about Stephen Hawking. The title derives from Hawking’s 1988 bestselling book in which he attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang,...
The Universe in 4 Minutes
Funny thing about sub-atomic particles, sometimes they behave as waves other times as particles depending how they’re feeling and whether or not they’re on their period. Anyway, nothing means anything and we’re all gonna...
Surgical leeches and facial reconstruction
The world’s first plastic surgery Willie Vicarage, who was suffering from WWI facial wounds that he sustained in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, was one of the first men to receive facial reconstruction...
