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Paper airplanes to advance spacecrafts »

The perfect origami spacecraft took 18 months to be figured out - No, it's not a joke. Japanese scientists are planning to launch a paper airplane from space, to learn a lot from its trip to Earth. A durability ...
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A close-up on Perseus »

My God, it's full of galaxies! - This amazing image is a picture of the Perseus Cluster, one of the closest clusters of galaxies. Yes, galaxies, not stars. The astronaut David Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey sh ...
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The oldest living tree »

The planet's longest-lived identified plant - Researchers have discovered in Sweden the world's oldest known living tree. It is a conifer that first took root at the end of the last Ice Age. What we can see in ...
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Memories processed faster than reality »

Brain processes memories six to seven times faster than real time - As discovered by scientists rats, when sleeping, play back memories as much as seven times faster than the events really happened. The researc ...
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The biggest bug ever »

The sea scorpions also were cannibals that fought and ate one other - British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion it would make t ...
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An interview with Richard Feynman »

In 1981 Richard Feynman gave BBC Horizon a candid interview - Richard Feynman was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers of the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum ele ...
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Drop photofits for caricatures »

Caricatures are more effective than police sketches - According to British researchers cops should drop the practice of circulating police sketches of suspects in favor of crazy, amusement-pier-style caricature ...
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