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First Flight: the Wright Brothers

The first powered flight was made by the Wright brothers over a hundred years ago. Unlike the try-it-and-see methods used in many of...

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Life Beyond Earth

This articles looks at the methods used to detect if there is life elsewhere in the universe.

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Quick Reactions

This article looks at how the human body can make speedy responses; how the nervous system works and how nerve impulses pass around the human body.

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Radioactivity and Wildlife

Early in 2003, researchers in the Arctic reported that radioactivity was being spread among wildlife species in ways that no one had detected before....

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Exploring Saturn

This article follows the journey of the space probes "Huygens" and "Cassini", sent to explore Titan, a moon of Saturn. After a seven year journey it was...

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Hair

Hair can be cut and sculpted into the latest fashionable shapes and can hold fast to all the colours of the rainbow. This article explores how hair grows and how...

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Climate Modelling

This article considers the scientific likelihood of the sudden onset of an ice age.

In Vitro...

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Do U Wan2 Tlk> ;)

Mobile phones are everywhere; most people in the UK own one. But how do they work? This article looks at the science behind this popular piece of...

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Medical Imaging

Microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet and X-rays are all electromagnetic waves. Some are used to create medical images and others to treat disease. How the...

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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the science of building tiny devices. Some people say that nanotechnology will be the answer to many of our biggest challenges - in...

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Fruit Flies and Alzheimer's Disease

This article looks at some basic aspects of genetics and how fruit flies are being used in novel ways to study genetic diseases....

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Eyes

Human beings depend on their eyes to provide them with information about their surroundings. This article examines the basic functioning of the eye and at what can...

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Journey Into Inner Space

By the end of 2007, physicists working at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider hope to have received the first results from what is probably the...

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Wave Power

To tackle climate change, one potential major energy resource has remained untapped until now: wave power.

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Would You Be a CLEVER Driver?

The CLEVER car has been designed to be a compact, energy-efficient car. Many of its design features are likely to appear in more conventional cars in...