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The trillion-frame-per-second camera
20/12/2011 - 18:39
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Get your hands on MIT’s new ultrafast camera and, according to its designers, anything in the universe can be viewed in slow motion, even the movement of photons through space.

It...

Cambridge University digitise rare Newton manuscripts
12/12/2011 - 17:13
Submitted by Kieron Allen

After spending hundreds of years hidden from view, over 4,000 pages of Isaac Newton’s personal notebooks and manuscripts have been unleashed into the public domain as part of an ambitious...

The bacteria farming yeti crab
05/12/2011 - 17:15
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Snow white and covered in hair, the aptly named yeti crab, is the first crustacean ever discovered that actually grows it’s own food.

This bizarre creature doesn’t follow...

Dopamine: Is this how Toxoplasma gondii controls your brain?
30/11/2011 - 13:25
Submitted by Kieron Allen

It’s estimated that 15 percent of people in the UK are infected with Toxoplasma Gondii (Toxo), a bizarre mind-altering parasite capable of driving rodents to suicide. Now scientists have...

Mars: Now's a good time to go
23/11/2011 - 18:16
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Fifty years ago the first “moonwalkers” were heralded as heroes. But in an age of space tourism the Moon is more holiday destination that unfathomable fantasy. Nowadays there are...

The BBC Lab UK morality test
14/11/2011 - 18:22
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Where do our morals come from? This is the question posed by a new morality test from the BBC’s Lab UK team. Through an online...

How it works: Brain freeze
11/11/2011 - 17:46
Submitted by Kieron Allen

You’re standing in front of hundreds of people, it’s a pivotal moment in your career and some one asks you a simple question that you know the answer to…suddenly you have...

Asteroid 2005 YU55: A very close shave
04/11/2011 - 18:19
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Next week a 400m wide asteroid is going to pass frighteningly close to the Earth, a mere 200,000 miles (thats .85 lunar distances away, bringing it closer to us than the Moon) but It’s not...

How it works: Shale gas fracking
02/11/2011 - 17:53
Submitted by Kieron Allen

 Earlier this year residents near Blackpool felt the ground beneath them shake. Now a study has shown these tremors are likely to have been caused by fracking,...

The Hoverboard...and 5 sci-fi gadgets that really exist
01/11/2011 - 11:54
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Any fan of Back to the Future is likely to have dreamed of one day zipping down the street on their very own hover board. Well, thanks to a group of inspired French scientists (and the...

Your say: Can nuclear power ever be completely safe?
20/10/2011 - 17:21
Submitted by Kieron Allen
The Burning Question featured in the October issue, ‘Can nuclear power ever be 100 per cent safe?’ by Professor Paddy Regan at the University of Sussex...
Quantum levitation: How it works
18/10/2011 - 17:33
Submitted by Kieron Allen
 

If you've never heard of quantum levitation, you soon will, as this demonstration video made by researchers at Tel-Aviv University is going...