Richard Hodson
Recent articles by Richard Hodson
How does an airport scanner work?
While you’re stepping through an airport metal detector in your socks, have you ever wondered what happens to your luggage as it enters an X-ray scanner?
What causes jet lag?
Jet lag occurs when our internal body clock is out of sync with the time of day, causing tiredness and difficulty sleeping - but what causes it?
Artificial muscles created from onions
Onions are pretty versatile vegetables. From soup to insect repellent, there’s a lot you can do with a humble onion, but nothing so strange as this latest use: making artificial muscles.
Lip-reading computers could spell the end of badly dubbed films
Thanks to a new technology developed by Disney Research, dubbed foreign language films could soon be made a whole lot easier to follow.