Very Interesting – July-August 2019
physics A-level, you make a better first- and second-year junior doctor. Suzie I think there’s also evidence that we need to loo ...
IN NUMBERS 30% The percentage increase in learners choosing the sciences as matric subjects at Parktown Girls High School after ...
@Aoife_Hunt ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND MATHEMATICIAN. AT MOVEMENT STRATEGIES, WHICH. IS A COMPANY THAT SPECIALISES. IN CROWD FLOW PL ...
PHOTOS: JOHNNY MILLAR, GETTY DR JESS WADE @jesswade FIND OUT MORE Here are some of the excellent resources mentioned by our pane ...
T he invention of the movie camera is, ironically, a story worthy of Hollywood. In 1888, the renowned American inventor Thomas E ...
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Saharan snow Not even the Sahara Desert is safe from winter’s icy tendrils. On 7 January 2018, the dunes near the northern Alger ...
How does the phone network know where to send the signal when someone rings me? Amy Rouse, St Francis Bay W hile smartphones are ...
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READY TO LEAVE? plunder the Earth’s finite resources, our planet is looking increasingly imperilled. A 2012 World Wildlife Fund ...
GETTY, AI SPACEFACTORY/PLOMPMOZES I f we’re going to successfully leave Earth, we’ll need to figure out how to conceive in space ...
A new era of space exploration began in January 2018, with relatively little fanfare. A tiny satellite – Arkyd-6 – was lofted in ...
GETTY X3, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY X2, NASA, BLUE ORIGIN, WIKIPEDIA Solar sails We might one day sail around the solar system. Huge ...
H umans are fragile beasts whose sensitive biology needs a lot of protecting. This is particularly true away from the protective ...
Location: The moon Distance from Earth: 384,400km (average) Pros: Could evacuate back to Earth in an emergency. A great testing ...
O n Earth, vegetarianism and veganism are on the up and up. In space they’ll be a necessity: there simply aren’t enough resource ...
47 The real breakthrough could come if we master the art of synthetic biology – the ability to design, engineer and build biolog ...
O ur bodies don’t react well to the low-gravity environment of space. Our muscles don’t have to work as hard, so they start to w ...
LEFT: NASA astronaut Cady Coleman tests out the ISS’s Cycle Ergometer. RIGHT: Mice have been taken onto the ISS to study the eff ...
P sychologists have found that faces we rate as attractive tend to be highly symmetrical, and the positioning of their features ...
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