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Vanishing point: five ways to become invisible
19 Jul 2014:From HG Wells to JK Rowling, invisibility has long been the stuff of fiction. Not any more. Philip Ball on five ways in which scientists are trying to make things 'disappear'
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10 Sep 2014: Tim Radford: Is the Earth really so special, asks the celebrated astrobiologist in this intoxicating study. And what are the chances of life beyond? -
6 Sep 2014: Jon Butterworth: A short film on the ups, but mainly downs, of a difficult search.
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6 Sep 2014:
A new film tells the intricate tale of a science that transformed our view of the world
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31 Aug 2014: Jon Butterworth: A brief explanation of the physics behind the treatment that Ashya King’s parents wanted for their son’s cancer
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22 Aug 2014: Dean Burnett: Doctor Who is about to return. The Doctor has always had superior cognitive abilities, but what is the neuroscience that could explain this?
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19 Aug 2014:
Athene Donald: Structural colours are more visible and vivid than those that use pigments – as many examples from the natural world demonstrate. But sometimes pure white is what is required
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18 Aug 2014:
The prolific British science writer Philip Ball discusses his latest book Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
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Quiz,
14 Aug 2014:
We've used questions from the Biology, Chemistry and Physics A-Level papers. Show us how well you know your science
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13 Aug 2014:
Judith Mackrell enjoys a hilarious double-bill of tightly choreographed dance pieces that pairs scientists explaining the big bang theory, and a cook chopping up chicken
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7 Aug 2014:
Jon Butterworth: It is the holiday season, when many scientists head off around the world to exotic locations, to give talks at conferences, to install and maintain their experiments, and, occasionally, to relax. So here are some of my favourite recent and not-so-recent physics-related snaps
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7 Aug 2014:
It may not be able to disguise itself as a car, but the flattened robot can build itself and walk away without human intervention
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4 Aug 2014:
Jon Butterworth: The Large Hadron Collider was guaranteed to change physics forever. A recently published paper studies the rare types of particle-scattering underlying that claim
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Audio
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4 Aug 2014:
Nick Bostrom on why the creation of a superintelligent computer might be the last invention mankind ever makes
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28 Jul 2014:
The British physicist Jon Butterworth discusses his new book Smashing Physics, an insider's account of the discovery of the Higgs boson. Plus, the origins of life
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20 Jul 2014:
Jon Butterworth: Why populations explode, and why
traces of radioactive elements can hang around for a very long time
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