August 2009 Archives

Here are some amazing photos of aircraft breaking the sound barrier.

All you needed to know about the magical constant thanks to the good chaps at the University of Nottingham.

Using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, Nasa has come up with a spectacular 3D show going deeper into outer space, and back in time.

The video starts with a few facts but really kicks in around the 3-minute mark.

This year was the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Origin of Species'.

Courtesy of The New York TImes, here's Richard Milner explaining evolution through the medium of song.

The recent Perseid meteor shower was, well, a bit of a shower over where I live. Stupid clouds.

If it had been clear, I couldn't have failed to spot this bad boy.

How big is space stuff? This video will give you some sense of perspective.

Remember Jurassic Park? It could be a reality sooner than you think.

But instead of using dino DNA trapped in amber to bring the giant reptiles back, scientists are looking to meddle with the genes of its modern-day ancestor, the bird, to hatch them straight from the egg.

As long as we don't wipe ourselves out, or nature chooses us for extinction, there will come a time when the human race starts spreading out into the solar system.

Sure we can build bases on the moon and maybe a nice holiday resort on Mars - but what if we could Earth-ify them?

Theoretical physicists searching for the 'theory of everything' are always on about dimensions.

Just three aren't enough for them. To get the equations to work you have to have at least 10 and sometimes more (I think I read somewhere 26 really makes them sing!)

Here's a little help to grapple with the mind-bending idea.

Scientists have unearthed a prehistoric runway used by flying pterosaurs.

Named 'Pterosaur Beach by an excited international team of paleontologists, the ancient lagoon in southwestern France dates back to the late Jurassic period.