Bacterium-sized Bunny the future for Bionic Brains

Scientists in Japan have created a new material that can be shaped into complex, conductive 3-D structures. Get ready for your custom brain electrodes.

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The Modern Periodic Table

Ten questions on grammar

Grammar is in the headlines with the arrival of a new test for primary school children, but how much do you know about apostrophes, semi-colons and dangling participles?

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Commander Chris Hadfield - Space Oddity

Commander Chris Hadfield - the first Canadian to walk in space and surely the coolest man in space* - released this version of David Bowie's  Space Oddity on 12 May 2013, after handing over command of the International Space Station before returning home.




* And described by Forbes as "perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever to leave Earth".

More Maths

School of Hard Sums

If you're not watching this, you should be.

Dara O Briain on the importance of Maths:

“Maths is the language in which the universe is written. It’s innate to the human brain and is a spectacular thing that we’ve discovered/invented. Also it permeates our lives. If you have to discuss something in terms of its utility, we’re moving increasingly to being a technological society and therefore you need to be conversant with it. But in all honesty, I am over discussing things in terms of their utility, as if education is just training for jobs – it isn’t.

"I encounter the same argument in teaching obscure languages: it fires neurons in different ways, helps you with problems. The example I quote is if people really understood probability, they’d save a lot of money on lottery tickets.”