Abstract: Is there a scientific reason why no one has ever managed to fly by flapping wings like a bird, or would it be possibl...
Abstract: If we didn't have water in large quantities on the surface of the Earth, with its moderating temperature capabilities...
Abstract: A thunderstorm can be frightening indeed. Its energy is awesome. That huge energy which drives the storm comes from t...
Abstract: When you are flying in the sky, a little knowledge of science can help you overcome fear. Aviation theory involves so...
Abstract: There are so many excellent contenders in the animal kingdom. Lions, elephant seals, beetles, mantis and polar bears ...
Abstract: I'll show you how these merit-based competitions, with equal access to everyone, with the winner SELECTed via voting ...
Abstract: Alfred Bernhard Nobel was the world's most famous Swede, founder of the world's most famous prize. Yet were it not fo...
Abstract: We spend an average of 35 minutes a day or 2 years of our lives getting clean. But did you know your soap contains do...
Abstract: Here is the story of a remarkable people and a place frozen in time, a story of how a civilization was crafted a...
Abstract: Welcome to secrets of the sequence. We've got a lot of names for it: flying off the handle, seeing red, going berserk...
Abstract: If you are not natural high jumpers, how high can you jump? Welcome to Science Shack. We'll try and answer the questi...
Abstract: As early as 1609, Italian astronomer Galileo made his first telescopic observations of the night sky. We know far mor...
Abstract: The mega dredger Vasco da Gama is the world's largest trailing hopper suction dredger — a vessel that can literally m...
Abstract: Somewhere in the world there is a car accident every second of every day. In Britain alone, there are tens of thousan...
Abstract: The annual ceremony in Stockholm at which the Nobel Prizes are awarded is a major media event. Each prize is worth ov...
Abstract: The Atlantic Guardian is a repair truck — a 3,200-ton supership guarding the wired world we live in, and we can not l...
Abstract: This is Oliver, an ape, who is becoming a living legend, perhaps the only example of this kind. His baffled science l...
Abstract: Momory does not work like a video tape recorder, you don't just see an event, record it, and play it back the way a t...
Abstract: In Future Fighting Machines, we'll delve into a world of deadly high tech, this time going to ground to win the war, ...
Abstract: To become the object of another's desire. We have clothes to catch their eye, odours to excite their passion. The Val...