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Racing robots

BBC News: Robot rally cars face tough race. Twenty-three cars are setting off on a remarkable race across the desert. From a distance, the cars look like any other rally cars tearing down the dusty roads. But closer inspection reveals that something odd is going on. There's no-one

Cloak of invisibility

BBC News: Experts create invisibility cloak. A US-British team of scientists has successfully tested a cloak of invisibility in the laboratory. The device hid a small copper cylinder from passing microwaves in tests at Duke University in North Carolina. It works by deflecting the microwaves around the object and restoring

2006 Ig Nobel Winners

The award ceremony for the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize winners was Thurs Oct 5th. These were the winners: Ornithology: Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don'

Star City camp

BBC News: Inside Russia's space camp. The location symbolises the sensitivity. For years, Star City didn't appear on any maps - kept hidden away from the West's prying eyes during the Cold War. Even today, gaining entry to Russia's Cosmonaut training centre

Health drink

BBC News: Tea 'healthier' drink than water. Drinking three or more cups of tea a day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water and may even have extra health benefits, say researchers. The work in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition dispels the common belief

Archimedes and the synchrotron

BBC News: X-rays reveal Archimedes secrets. A series of hidden texts written by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being revealed by US scientists. Until now, the pages have remained obscured by paintings and texts laid down on top of the original writings. Using a non-destructive technique known as X-ray

Good news for chocolate lovers

BBC News: Diamond facility starts to shine. In the heart of South Oxfordshire stands a vast silver doughnut-shaped building. The futuristic construction is home to a huge scientific contraption that will, quite literally, shine a light on the tiny particles that make up the world. As well as furthering our

Gravity waves

BBC News: Lab tuned to gravity's 'ripples'. One of the great scientific experiments of our age is now fully underway. A German/UK team has put the giant GEO 600 gravitational wave detector in a continuous observational mode. The Hanover lab is trying to detect the

Disappearing teaspoons

Found this on the Magpi: The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute.From the introduction: In January 2004 the authors found their tearoom bereft of teaspoons. Although a flunky (MSCL) was rapidly dispatched to purchase a new batch,

You can't see me

BBC News: 'Cloaking device' idea proposed. The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, two mathematicians have claimed. They have outlined their concept in a research paper published in one of the UK Royal Society's scientific

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