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Fractal Power
Share prices, the shape of the coastline, the strength of metals and the latest...
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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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How advanced are we as a civilisation?
In 1964 soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scale for measuring the technological...
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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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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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Chaos Theory Demystified
Physics has been practised, in one form or another, for thousands of years. Throughout that...
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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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Nuclear Fusion: Energy for the Future?
When it comes to energy sources, nuclear fusion used to be the wallflower. But now, scientists...
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Is Time Travel Possible?
Not all scientists agree but according to Einstein and quantum theory, time travel could be...
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Explosions in Space
Scientists have now identified the types of galaxies where gamma-ray bursts occur - and luckily...
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What was the Star of Bethlehem?
For two thousand years, Biblical scholars have debated the nature of the Christmas Star. Now...
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Lords of the Ring
Deep beneath the ground in Geneva, scientists and engineers are building the world's most...
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A Beginner's Guide to Antimatter
This year marks the 100th anniversary of a revolution in our notions of space and time. Before...
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A New Form of Matter 2 - Fermionic Condensates
Researchers have discovered a weird new phase of matter called fermionic condensates. We learned...
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Relativity Revisited
NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft has begun its search for a bizarre prediction of Einstein's...
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
This is an edited transcript of an interview with Richard Feynman. He talks openly about how he...
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Black Hole Sound Waves
Sound waves 57 octaves lower than middle-C are rumbling away from a supermassive black hole in...
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A Troublesome Theory in Materials Science
A physics theory used to create cutting-edge "designer materials" doesn't work as scientists...
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Tea - Mystery in a Cup of Tea
Using odds and ends from the space station pantry, researchers have learned something new about...
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Spooky Atomic Clocks
Researchers are hoping to improve high-precision clocks by entangling their atoms. Einstein...
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Robot Blood?
Astronauts onboard the International Space Station are studying strange fluids that might one day...
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Recipe for the Universe - Just Six Numbers
Our whole Universe is governed by just six numbers, set at the time of the Big Bang. Alter any...
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A Beginner's Guide to Antimatter
It may be the ultimate fuel for space travel, but right now antimatter is fleeting, difficult to...
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Reaching for the Stars - Antimatter Explored
In this article we examine the use of antimatter and fusion to propel future spacecraft to the...
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Bizarre Boiling
Watching liquids boil in low gravity is an out-of-this-world experience. It has plenty of...
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Bucky Balls - Buckyballs Explored
The first transistors to be fashioned from a single "buckyball" - a molecule of carbon-60 - have...
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Coffee Physics
Here's something to ponder over your next cup of coffee. The physics of a humble bag of ground...
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Eclipse that Changed the Universe - Einstein's...
Eclipse that Changed the Universe A total eclipse of the Sun is a moment of magic: a scant few...
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A Brief History of Infinity
The paradoxical twists and turns of infinity have baffled many great thinkers. The first person...
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Molecules Rule!
An experiment onboard the International Space Station is helping physicists decipher the group...
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