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Sir Isaac Newton is one of history's greatest scientists. But what was he like as a man?

Sixty Symbols take a look.

Sometimes it's tricky explaining something that from the outside seems simple.

Take magnets for instance. The physics behind it is, well, involved. Luckily Weird Science Hero Richard Feynman is on hand to help out.

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.

How good are you at parallel parking?

It's the one thing many motorists fear the most but don't panic, science is here to help.

NPR has published a how-to guide using geometry formulated by mathematician Simon Blackburn with a little help from Pythagorus.

Click here for a ticket to perfect parking.

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.

Weird Science Hero Carl Sagan was obviously a dab hand in the kitchen but I'm still stuck at the very start of this recipe.

Click on the image to embiggen and then try it for yourself - please get in touch if you manage to get past step 2!

Now I love surfing the web as the next man, and this blog itself relies on literally dozens of people a day making their way through cyberspace to Weird Science Towers.

But it turns out the interweb is anything but efficient and chucking out around 300 million tons of carbon every year.

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.

Is there nothing the search engine can't do?

Scientists studying Google Maps of the Amazon rainforest reckon they've stumbled across the site of the legendary City of Gold.

Since the time of the conquistadors, the legend of an ancient, lost civilization deep in the Amazonian jungle has beguiled hundreds of explorers and led many to their deaths.

Turns out they mean different things. They Might Be Giants explain all through the medium of song...