Results tagged “science”

Space might be the final frontier but for Professor Brian Cox it's one the human race simply has to continue exploring.

The biggest star in British science broadcasting was in orbit around Excel last week, when he was on hand to judge the young scientist competition at the Big Bang Fair.

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The remarkable success of Apple's iPad has revived the fortunes of the iPad killers as well.

Hewlett-Packard's version has been variously on the slate and on the slab, according to the latest thinking of the manufacturer which has teased, delayed and withdrawn its tablet.

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A decade ago life become slightly more comprehensible and infinitely more complicated when the first draft of the human genome was announced.

Promising an era of bright - and occasionally frightening discoveries in the field of genetics, hereditary diseases, identity and behaviour.

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Name the body's largest organ and many would cite the liver, the brain or maybe the heart. But, truth is, the skin is king.

The Wellcome Institute has just opened a free - and occasionally ghoulish - exhibition on our outer coating - what we've thought about it, what we've done to it and how the crueller excesses of nature have distorted it.

While the eyes of the world have been focused on Copenhagen this week as world leaders try to thrash out a deal on global warning scientists closer to home have revealed they have found a way of turning waste carbon dioxide into something useful.

Dr Paula Carey and Dr Colin Hills, scientists at the University of Greenwich, have developed a process to turn carbon dioxide into rock.

For many people science at school was pretty dull jumble of test tubes and incomprehensible formulas.

But one man has been on a crusade in recent years to make the subject interesting to kids of all ages, with spectacular results.