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• science The Secret Molecular Life of Soap Bubbles

  18.05.2012 We're always trying to bring you some scientific bits-and-bobs on yornet. We like things that ...

• tech Mind Controlled Robotic Arm

  18.05.2012 Researchers at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Centre, Brown University, and ...

• science The Scale of the Universe

  17.05.2012 Cary and Michael Huang created this impressive flash animation showing the relation of size ...

• science Measuring the Universe

  16.05.2012 Are you one of these people who always asks themselves how scientists get their data when ...

• video 5158.3 miles

  15.05.2012 Jorge Gonzalez and his partner, Jessica, decided to travel across the United States with their ...

• discovery Watch a $25G Camera Get Made By Hand

  15.05.2012 The Leica Camera AG, formerly known as Ernst Leitz GmbH, is one of Germany's traditional optics ...

• report Getting Naked to Change the World

  14.05.2012 The Ukrainian activist group Femen has made headlines around the world by baring their breasts ...

• statistics In Numbers: Education around the world

  14.05.2012 Education is essential to a healthy and self-determined life. DW created a great table of graphs ...

• report Germany Still Locates 40,000 War Casualties a Year

  11.05.2012 The German War Graves Commission launched a campaign on Tuesday, the 67th anniversary of the end ...

• report Bangladesh: Adapting to Climate Change

  11.05.2012 Climate change is a global process that impacts everyone, but sometimes the burden is not spread ...

• discovery Patrouille de France

  10.05.2012 The Patrouille Acrobatique de France, also known as the Patrouille de France or PAF, is the ...

• report Playing music to escape Mexico murders

  9.05.2012 Living in Juarez, Mexico is hard. Drug cartels and violence dominate everyday life. BBC did an ...

• nasa Pursuit of Light

  9.05.2012 NASA is doing a lot of research and data collecting for several scientific subject areas. The ...

• tech 3D Augmented Reality Coffee Table

  7.05.2012 We can't wait to get one of these! Bastian Broecker created this amazing table that uses ...

• tech History Flushed

  7.05.2012 The digital age does not store its information in books, it uses any sort of digital memory like ...

• discovery Leonardo da Vinci's Real Body of Work Was Anatomy

  3.05.2012 Everybody knows about Leonardo da Vinci's famous works of art, some may also know that he was a ...

• experiment Leaving the Internet

  2.05.2012 I can't remember a regular day in the past months or even years, except maybe vacations, that I ...

• author Mark Greif & the Hipster

  26.04.2012 Mark Greif is the co-editor, co-founder and contributor to the magazine n+1, as well as a ...

• tech Honda Internavi

  26.04.2012 Honda Internavi is a navigation system that recommends routes based on real-time traffic data ...

• video Why you should care about Greek debt

  25.04.2012 The Greek crisis isn't just a local phenomenon; debt is a deadly global trend. Will Tim be able ...

• discovery Urban Farming

  25.04.2012 Approaches to sustainable agriculture in several of the world's largest cities.

• documentary "Photojournalisms"

  24.04.2012 The notion of ‘home’ has shifting significance for Ed Kashi, a photojournalist who travels the ...

• nature The Surprising Truth About Antarctic Biodiversity

  24.04.2012 The Dry Valleys of Antarctica don’t sound like a particularly hospitable place: sub-zero ...

• report The Science of Civil War

  23.04.2012 Computer models that can predict the outbreak and spread of civil conflict are in development.

• nature The World's Weirdest Volcanic Crater

  23.04.2012 In the North East of Ethiopia lies the Danokil Desert. At its heart is a volcanic crater, ...

• net Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple – ...

  20.04.2012 A report about how the rise of app stores and social networks is making the way we use the net ...

• net US and China engage in cyber war games

  19.04.2012 Exclusive: US and Chinese officials take part in war games in bid to prevent military escalation ...

• net China's Censors Tested by Microbloggers Who ...

  18.04.2012 China may have the world's most internet-savvy government but Beijing has been struggling to ...

• video 10 most common languages

  18.04.2012 Almost all the people on Earth can speak at least one of these 10 incredibly common languages. ...

• centenary One hundred years later: The (new) Titanic Museum

  16.04.2012 In celebration of the centenary of the sank of the great Titanic, the new Titanic Museum in ...

• climate "Chasing Ice"

  16.04.2012 In the spring of 2005, National Geographic photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a ...

• book "An Awesome Book"

  13.04.2012 Dallas Clayton is a normal creative who wanted to celebrate his son by writing a book for him. ...

• discovery The Honey Hunters of Nepal

  11.04.2012 Sweet, sweet honey. In our society, honey is something you buy in the supermarket on the cheap. ...

• report Wealthier Countries Are More Interested in the ...

  10.04.2012 According to a new study from Nature, citizens in poorer countries are more focused on the past ...

• gallery Spectacular Snow Patterns

  6.04.2012 Artist Simon Beck must really love the cold weather! Along the frozen lakes of Savoie, France, ...

• report What Gets Censored in China?

  5.04.2012 Ever wondered what exactly the Chinese government is censoring? Well, thanks to a study by ...

• Kilden Performing Arts Centre by ALA Architects

  5.04.2012 Kilden Performing Arts Centre, designed by the Helsinki-based architecture firm ALA has reached ...

• video Climbing Performance at the Academy of Fine ...

  4.04.2012 Vojtěch Fröhlich is an Czech born artist in Prague. Here he is below, during the opening of the ...

• report Keeping Women in Science on a Tenure Track

  4.04.2012 More women are obtaining Ph.D.’s in science than ever before, but those women — largely because ...

• book IMAGINE: How Creativity Works

  3.04.2012 What makes people creative? What gives some of us the ability to create work that captivates the ...

• video Fukushima: Alone in a Nuclear Zone

  2.04.2012 On March 11th of 2011, a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of ...

• campaign Nature's Giving Up

  30.03.2012 China Environmental Protection Foundation launches “Nature’s Given Up”, a print advertising ...

• documentary The Brain Story

  30.03.2012 Some scientists submit that the human brain is probably the most complex thing in our known ...

• How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

  27.03.2012 Most people know Adam Savage as the co-host of the television series MythBusters. He is an ...

• Why People in Cities Walk Fast

  26.03.2012 Life goes faster in the meltin' pots of our world. This is an accepted fact. The following ...

• Into the Amazon with Google Street View

  26.03.2012 In line with World Forest Day on March 21, Google has unveiled Google Amazon Street View, which ...

• Robotic Aircraft Controlled by Human Hand Gestures

  23.03.2012 Aircraft carrier crews already use a set of hand gestures and body positions to guide pilots ...

• A Trip to Bangkok & Hong Kong with Robbie ...

  21.03.2012 Robbie Owens-Russo is the head menswear designer of the fashion label Insight. He's been to both ...

• #Soda or #Pop?

  19.03.2012 Sneakers or tennis shoes? Hoagie or hero? Dust bunny or house moss? These differences in ...

• Voices of Conscience: Why Do Some People Take ...

  16.03.2012 Why do people stand up for their principles, even when the results could lose them their jobs, ...