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When you see snapshots from the early 20th Century they're usually in faded black and white or sepia.

However, when Tsar Nicholas II tasked Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii with taking a photographic survey of the Russian Empire, the leader picked a very clever man.

A new 3-D movie promises to give you an amazing insight into the Space Shuttle's mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Moviegoers will have the chance of accompanying astronauts during almost every step of the way, including a thunderous shuttle launch sequence.

For most of us who may never get the chance to hop aboard a private spacecraft for a seemingly weightless thrill-ride, the film Hubble may represent the best opportunity to experience what astronauts have long struggled to describe.

While I'm a big fan of ice cream I must admit I have never pondered where the stuff came from. I'm guessing somewhere cold maybe?

Nope. A post at Paleontology News has put me right. Ice cream has its roots in ancient China and Arabia.

You can't beat a good crash test.

How Stuff Works have posted five of the best car crashes under controlled conditions.

But here at Weird Science Towers we've gone one better. Here's a train smashing into a nuclear container at 100mph to prove its indestructibility (I'm guessing the container and not the train!)

The search for alien life could get us into a trouble, a British astronomer has warned.

Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, says we should get governments and the UN involved lest we unwittingly contact hostile extraterrestrials.

Almost 50 years ago scientist Frank Drake came up with a simple enough equation to calculate the number of radio-friendly aliens there are in our galaxy.

But it has taken until now for someone else to use the same approach for finding an appropriate girlfriend.

A little lad got more than he bargained for when he brought in his home-made motion detector into class.

From The San Diego Union-Tribune:

Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School, San Diego, Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said.

Now there's a question no curious scientists could resist to try and answer.

And according to Mind Hacks, they did way back in 1963.

The world's first supersonic stealth jumpjet, the F-35B, has begun flight tests of its vertical-thrust technology.

The radical plane is intended to replace the famous Harrier in the services of many nations, including the UK.

Click to The Register for more.

Scientific recordings of the blast wave from the first hydrogen bomb test have been rediscovered in a formerly-classified safe at Columbia University.

On November 1, 1952, physicists created the second fusion explosion the solar system has ever known.

The first, by the way, occurred around 4.5 billion years ago and ignited the the sun.