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nuclear technologies that are safer and cheaper will likely be necessary for nuclear energy to meet its full potential as a crit ...
Others have proposed that nuclear plants could be located several miles offshore on floating barges like those used in oil and g ...
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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE FROM DNA TRACKERS TO DRONE SPIES, THE TECH THAT ZOOLOGISTS USE TODAY WOULD PUT JAMES BOND TO SHAME... ...
PHOTO: ALISTAIR HOBDAY COSMIC CAMERAS The high-resolution GigaPan camera was initially devel- oped for NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rov ...
Thanks to their speed and general habit of monkeying around, accurately monitoring primate behaviour can be a tall order. The us ...
Tiny RFID tags fitted to tropical wasps have revealed intriguing behaviour about the insects “Bizarrely, these wasps don’t just ...
With numbers falling a staggering 96 per cent since 1970, turtledoves are the UK’s fastest declining migratory bird species. The ...
PHOTOS: STEVEN DAVID JOHNSON GETTY, JOSEPH WOODGATE, TOM CHURCHYARD/RSPB IMAGES, ISTOCK The radio and transponder setup is light ...
HOW DO WE KNOW... HOW TO FORECAST WEATHER? Scan this QR Code for the audio reader PHOTO: CORBIS WRATH OF GOD God is angry. That ...
uring an early meeting of the newly formed Royal Society in 1663, a scheme was proposed by John Wilk ins, the old master of Trin ...
miles. There was no theory to account for this. A decade later Redfield published one of the classic texts in the history of met ...
PHOTO: GETTY X4, ALAMY X2, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON circa 50 BC The Tower of the Winds is built in Athens. Each wall of this oc ...
he could. If bad weather was detected, a message was relayed to the relevant station, and a drum was hoisted in the harbour in w ...
PETER MOORE IS A HISTORIAN, LECTURER AND AUTHOR OF THE WEATHER EXPERIMENT. forecast. In his Weather Prediction By Numerical Proc ...
Artist’s visualisation of a storm on the surface of Jupiter SCIENCE ...
BUILDING A PLANET ON EARTH In labs around the world, scientists are finding ways to recreate the ferocious conditions inside gas ...
around the world have been clamouring to create it for decades. STRANGE STUFF Gas giants do not have a solid surface and are mai ...
or superf luid, you are looking at the Nobel Prize in physics,” he says. The diamond anvil cell is an incredibly straightforward ...
“If you work with diamond anvil cells, you hear diamonds breaking a lot and it’s not your favourite sound” PHOTOS: ISTOCK X2 McW ...
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