How Scientists Looks at Really Tiny Things: Using Tape And Pliers
Bristol Uni's nanotech bods explain their office supply-laden research to YouTube's 'how it works' king Tom Scott.
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Bristol Uni's nanotech bods explain their office supply-laden research to YouTube's 'how it works' king Tom Scott.
If you could take the buzz out of pills, what would be the point in taking them? This is the mindset behind pioneering work to battle medication addiction.
CLIP uses clever combination of lasers and oxygen to solidify resin in three dimensions simultaneously.
The mission to put Britons on The Red Planet is essentially a scam, says Dr Joseph Roche of Trinity College, Dublin.
Is it really going to give you arthritis, or is this just another old wives' tale designed to straighten out your bad habits? Don't worry, science says you'll probably be fine.
A purportedly groundbreaking image of light showing of dual qualities might not be exactly as it seemed.
This trippy orb isn't the result of a misspent youth. Instead, it's the fruits of complex computer simulations that use the speed of seismic waves from earthquakes to visualise the existence of subterranean structures far beneath our planet's surface. Read more >
Architects seek a computed-aided solution to the old shade problem with some seriously big mirrors.
These underrated creatures have some surprising talents, including designing sophisticated transportation networks. Wait, what?
Rather than boosting aggressive behaviour, this brain chemical deals crickets a healthy dose of fear, telling them when to throw the towel in and flee a fight.
It's been a big week for chameleons.
Deep brain stimulation involves threading electrodes deep into the brain, but now scientists have a new wireless technique which targets the proteins that sense heat and spice.
This tangle of tubes, bottles and electronics may look a mess—but this is a small-molecule synthesiser, a kind of chemical 3D printer, and it can be used to construct the most obscure of molecules from scratch. Read More >>
You indirectly use random numbers online every day, but their ubiquity belies the fact that they're actually incredibly difficult to find. This is the story of where they come from.
The ancient secrets of Antarctica's 'bleeding' glacier are finally being revealed. Read More >>
The science of how they could do that is fascinating—but it raises a lot of futuristic ethical questions too.
