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What Einstein got wrong
What Einstein got wrong
01/07/2010

The history books regard Albert Einstein as a genius which is no small wonder: his theories encompass everything from the atom to the cosmos, and underpin technologies from solar cells to sat-nav. But a slew of new discoveries threaten to turn him into the passé professor.

What is our body's natural limit?
Could anyone go faster than Usain Bolt?
25/05/2010

Runners like Usain Bolt keep breaking records, but how fast can good old skin and bone ultimately carry us?

Nothing is Impossible
Nothing is Impossible
23/10/2009

Time travel, telepathy, free energy… science-fiction pipe dreams, right? Not according to scientists who are stretching the laws of physics to the brink. Paul Parsons says to hell with the horizon.

Diamonds aren’t forever
21/10/2009

To discover the ultimate theory linking all forces of nature in the Universe, physicists need to prove that proton decay exists. So why has nobody succeeded so far? Robert Matthews investigates

Nuclear detectives
Nuclear detectives
01/09/2008

If terrorists ever got their hands on a stray batch of nuclear material and made a dirty bomb, a small band of scientists would be tasked with tracking it down. Andy Ridgway joined them on the nuclear trail

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