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Cyber security: weapons and targets
Cyber security: weapons & targets
26/01/2011

It’s a spectre that’s long been feared: a cyberattack on a country’s national infrastructure. But it recently became a reality. Andy Ridgway looks at the escalating cyberarms race

Could hygiene obsession cause allergies?
13/01/2011

Is the modern world's obsession with hygiene responsible for a global allergy epidemic? Dan Cossins investigates.

How much sleep do we need?
How much sleep do we need?
13/01/2011

Dan Cossins interviews Prof Jim Horne, Director of Loughborough University's sleep research centre to find out if 40 winks is enough

Rogue waves
What causes rogue waves?
04/01/2011

Stories of rogue waves as big as 10-storey buildings appearing out of nowhere aren’t just fishy tales. But, as Andy Ridgway discovers, what causes these marine monsters remains unclear.

5 technologies that will change advertising
Tech that will change advertising
17/12/2010

Watch this space. Advertisers are using the latest technology to nestle further into our brains and wallets and target us in ever more sophisticated ways. Louise Ridley finds out how.

No such thing as a brontosaurus
No such thing as a brontosaurus
17/12/2010

Barely a month goes by without a new fossil find that challenges our understanding of how dinosaurs lived. Dan Cossins discovers that everyone's favourite brontosaurus may have just been a cultural myth...

The next big invention
18/11/2010

Paul Parsons discovers what determines whether your invention will make millions or just sit in your garden gathering dust.

Why do some people have a good sense of direction?
Why some people have a good sense of direction
18/11/2010

Which way now? Louise Ridley explains why some people have a better sense of direction than others

UFO sightings: the science
UFO sightings: the science
28/10/2010

Peter Davenport, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center in the US, speaks to Louise Ridley about taking the scientific approach to finding alien life

The science of aging: vital numbers
The science of aging: vital numbers
21/10/2010

Getting older is one of life’s inevitabilities. Or is it? Michael Mosley looks into aging. Here are the vital stats.