Football 2.0
The Premier League recently announced that as of next season goal line technology will be installed in every stadium. How will it work and how will it affect the beautiful game?
Category: Physical Sciences
The Power of Listening
First we had solar-powered cars — now we may soon have inner ear-powered hearing aids.
Script Kiddies
Believe it or not, people are not born with innate computer programming abilities. But how do we develop an interest in the next generation computer programmer from a young age?
My Car Runs on Air
Hybrid cars may have been a step in the right direction, but can we really eliminate our reliance on fossil fuels altogether?
From Mars to Callisto
Unless you live under an impressively sized rock, you will of heard of the recent landing of NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars. But what are the possibilities for human exploration beyond the Red Planet?
The certain possibility (or possible certainty) of the Higgs boson’s discovery
Daniel Giovannini talks to three of the physicists working at CERN who have been involved in the hunt for the Higgs Boson.
Branded painkillers — better pain relief or just a pain in the wallet?
Since regular pain killers were developed, pharmaceutical companies have been desperate to sell them to the cold-and-flu-ridden and pain-suffering public under fancy trade names such as ‘Nurofen’ and ‘Lemsip’. But are these flashy packets any more effective than the bland, generic supermarket own-brand packets?
Appropriate technology
Lydia Stevenson looks at technology developed to be appropriate for a particular area and sensitive to that area’s environmental, cultural, social and economic concerns.
