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Science Scrapbook
Drawing out the facts, the Naked Science Scrapbook brings a visual dimension to the world's most mysterious science...
Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system's gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. Now interstellar...
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have found evidence of a new fundamental particle, that could be the much...
What do nerve cells look like, how do they carry information, and how does one nerve connect and communicate with...
Hydrogen could be a key clean fuel of the future, powering cars, planes and technology. The challenge facing us before...
Whether you're watching a YouTube video, downloading an email, buying a birthday present or linking up with...
Fungi are a biologically important, and often overlooked Kingdom of organisms. In this Naked Science Scrapbook we find...
A lot of the metals we use every day, from car wheels to cutlery, are made from alloys. In this Naked Science Scrapbook...
Why do we feel tired or awake at the wrong times when we go on holiday to a different timezone? In this Naked Science...
When companies can't back up their data themselves, they often turn to data centres. But what do they do? In this...
From DVD players and supermarket scanners to laser pointers and Bond movies, lasers are part of our lives. But just how...
Huge amounts of energy are lost from power stations and cars as heat. But what if we could harness that heat and turn...
Most of us have a microwave oven in our kitchen. They make heating up leftovers and the dreaded readymeal much faster...
Every Christmas, one vegetable divides opinion – Brussels sprouts. Some of us love them, some of us hate them, but...
Millions of people now own compact digital cameras and camera phones that will automatically focus on parts of a scene...
How do we tell people apart by using their DNA? From murder investigations to paternity testing, DNA fingerprinting is...
Fuel cells may be a major energy source of the future, but how do they work? In the latest Naked Science Scrapbook, we...
Cheese is a major (and tasty) part of our diets and humans have been making it for thousands of years? But how is it...
If a diver surfaces too quickly after a dive, they can get the bends, or decompression sickness, causing excruciating...
Why are some people short sighted and some people long sighted? And how do we use something more usually associated...
Being able to fly off on holiday is something we may take for granted. But how does the big metal tube you're...
Humans have wanted to fly for thousands of years. Modern jet engines allow us to fly more efficiently, at greater...
Why does ice float in the cool summer drink of your choice? And why don't ponds and lakes freeze from the bottom...
Mosquitoes can transmit deadly diseases like malaria.But could they pass on HIV if they drank from an infected person?...
Copper compounds can be blue, green, yellow, brown and black - so how does it produce so many different colours? We...