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60 Interview: Sudha Murty A freewheeling chat with author Sudha Murty, whose enthusiasm for story-telling shows no sign of letti ...

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A very happy new year to you. The beginning of each year invites us to re-evaluate our thoughts on the everyday, and the pulling ...

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10 February 2017 Dr Christian Jarrett (CJ) Christian edits The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest blog. His latest ...

QUESTIONS ANSWERED | YOUR It’s not just because it reminds you of the comforting smell of your granny’s house. Lavender oil is m ...

Anyone who relies on the strength of a rope takes great care to prevent knots forming in it, as they can reduce the breaking str ...

The PS10 Solar Power Plant is located in Spain. A total of 624 mirrors concentrate the Sun’s rays onto a solar receiver on the t ...

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 14 February 2017 How fast could you cycle in a vacuum? When you ride a bike normally, the wind resistance ...

WHAT CONNECTS... ...GAS STREET LIGHTING AND NUCLEAR POWER? 1. In 1885, Austrian scientist Carl Auer von Welsbach invented a new ...

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WHAT IS THIS? THE CLAP SNAPPED Seen in this photograph are Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria that cause the infection gonorrhea, al ...

No, because you would have no way of ‘feeling’ the passage of time. It is true that large gravitational forces (such as when you ...

Lithium ion batteries have two electrodes sandwiching a layer of flammable organic solvent electrolyte between them. Mobile phon ...

HEALTHY MICE BORN FROM LAB-GROWN EGGS In a world first, Japanese researchers have transformed mouse skin cells into egg cells, a ...