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Are you hungry?

05/11/2009

It's about time!

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Who's Afraid of Wi-Fi?

01/01/2008

Wi-fi lets you connect to the internet without wires but some people say that it could be harmful to human health. Seeing as wi-fi is everywhere, should we be scared?

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Secret of Spider-man Suit Revealed

01/01/2008

Physicists have found the formula for a
"spider-man" suit, drawing inspiration from the amazing wall-clinging ability of geckos, and the ingenious properties of velcro.

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Enigma of the Singing Dunes

01/01/2008

When Marco Polo encountered the weird and wonderful noises made by sand dunes, he attributed them to evil spirits. 700 years later, scientists still don’t completely understand the cause of this eerie phenomenon...

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The Science of His Dark Materials

01/01/2008

Did you know that many of the fantastical ideas from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy have a basis in real science?

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Molecules at the Movies

01/01/2008

Physicists have made hydrogen and methane molecules into unsuspecting movie stars thanks to a revolutionary new measurement technique.

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Setting Hearts Aflutter

01/01/2008

Rappers and butterflies agree on at least one point: when you want to deliver a show-stopping performance, the more bling the better.

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Recreating the Big Bang

01/01/2008

…. Or almost. Switch on for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN happened on 10 September 2008, marking the beginning of a physics experiment which will recreate conditions last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

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Large Hadron What?

01/01/2008

The LHC has been switched on, but what about you? Taking our quiz is the only way to find out...

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Boobs, Babes and Blood

01/01/2008

For the average physicist, you might expect typical study subjects to include atoms or distant galaxies. But the researchers in UCL's medical physics department are far from average.

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