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Fractal Power
Share prices, the shape of the coastline, the strength of metals and the latest...
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Mosquito and cucumber salad anyone?
Could a genetic hybrid of a mosquito and a sea cucumber spell the end of malaria - one of the...
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Tall Tales: Giant Squid
Are the oceans hiding monsters of epic proportions? And will they survive long enough for us to...
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A mysterious dark energy fills the universe...
Dark energy makes the universe fly apart like a runaway freight train and keeps space-time flat...
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Aubrey de Grey wants to wish you a happy 200th...
Death and Taxes, we’re told, are inevitable. Aubrey de Grey, however, believes that aging is...
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Immunotherapy: Looking through cancer's invisibility...
The human body is bombarded daily with infectious agents and other toxins resulting in...
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The 'Ides of March'... In January?
It's one of Shakespeare's most memorable phrases... Julius Caesar is told by a soothsayer that...
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How advanced are we as a civilisation?
In 1964 soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scale for measuring the technological...
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Christmas, winter, darkness, stress and depression
December through February are statistically the worst months for stress and depression. It’s...
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Ancient Chinese Astronomy: New insights from old...
China has the world’s longest-running observations of the sky: though based in astrology, they...
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An aircraft capable of bombing any target on earth...
Standard passenger jets travel at around 900 km/h…. could you imagine flying ten times that...
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Who are the 2007 Nobel Prize Winners?
There are other awards and honours which can be earned by scientists – but the Nobel Prize is...
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Microscopes: why seeing smaller is not always better
Why are researchers working on a new type of microscope that has a lower resolution than those...
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The cult of hot chili peppers
The names of the products tell much of the story; Death Sauce, Iguana Radioactive Atomic Pepper,...
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Where Physics and Mysticism don't meet
Are all things in the universe connected to each other? Can you change your reality simply by...
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Suspended Animation: Fact or fiction?
Erica Nordby, a toddler in Edmonton Canada had wandered out alone into the frigid night. Before...
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The onslaught of allergies
Right now, 36 million people across the U.S. are fighting sneezing fits, runny noses and weeping...
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Chaos Theory Demystified
Physics has been practised, in one form or another, for thousands of years. Throughout that...
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Can people be influenced by subliminal messages?
Banned in many countries, it may have swung a US presidential election and could be the next big...
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More 2007 meteor showers on the way!
If you were disappointed that you missed the recent Perseid meteor shower, don�t fret there�s...
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Cool drinks and the inevitable arrow of time
If it�s a nice hot summer you might have the opportunity to be sitting outside and enjoying a...
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The Astronomy of Astrology
Astrology was first practiced in ancient Babylonia and was originally intertwined with astronomy....
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Human life on Mars?
It's been over 30 years since the last human beings ventured out of the relative safety of earth...
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Quantum Computing - Yes, no, or both?
The past 60 years have seen a phenomenal growth in the power of information technology, with...
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Science and Terrorism
We use science and technology for the management and improvement of our lives � yet it appears...
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Are you certain you've never had a placebo?
Would you take medication that had no pharmacological effect? Maybe you already...
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Genes for sale: barely used
It�s public and out there and we�ve got an International Consortium of Human Genome Sequencers to...
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Life after Humans
Today, we are modifying and augmenting our bodies and abilities in ways which were not only...
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Cannabis: Medicine or Malady?
Anxiety, depression, nausea, suspicion, lethargy, memory loss, schizophrenia, infertility; these...
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The Sharp End of Nanotechnology
We have known about the atomic nature of the structure of matter for over a century,...
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