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Why are your veins blue?

Why are veins blue picture
Nerys Shah from the Live Science Team at We the Curious uses infrared light to take a look underneath her skin to find [...]

The Sun: Five years in three minutes

The Sun. Credit: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory.
This amazing video of the sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows five years of sun time in three minutes. The SDO scientists took a picture of the sun [...]

Spinning spider silk

A female golden silk orb-weaver spider. Credit: Rain0975 on flickr.com. Used under CC BY-ND 2.0 licence.
Researchers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, are working out how to make artificial spider silk. Spiders build their webs out of lightweight, incredibly tough, [...]

Playing crocodiles

A male crocodile gives a piggyback ride to his lifelong female partner. Credit: Vladimir Dinets
Next time you’re enjoying a splashabout in water, think of crocodiles. Not to keep safe – there’s little danger you’ll see any in the UK – but [...]

Superdry

Professor Chunlei Guo has developed a technique that uses lasers to render materials hydrophobic, illustrated in this image of a water droplet bouncing off a treated sample. Credit: J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester
Scientists at the University of Rochester in the USA have treated metals so that they keep dry even when splashed with water. Chunlei Guo, professor of optics at the [...]

March of the moons

Three of Jupiter's largest moons move across its face.
The image on the left shows the Hubble observation at the beginning of the event. On the left is the moon Callisto and on the right, Io. The shadows from Europa, which cannot [...]

Keeping cool with tiny beads

Microcapsules containing sodium carbonate solution are suspended on a mesh during carbon dioxide absorption testing. The mesh allows many capsules to be tested at one time while keeping them separated, exposing more of their surface area. Credit: John Vericella, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Researchers in the USA have found a simple way to remove carbon dioxide – a gas, or a special type of air – out of the air around us. Carbon dioxide is also [...]
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