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A group of US researchers has produced a robotic set of legs which they believe is the first to fully model walking in a biologically accurate mann...

Manik Surtani is a senior software engineer at Red Hat Inc. Involved in the creation of open source technology he is well placed to tell students a...

Manik Surtani is a senior software engineer at Red Hat Inc. Involved in the creation of open source technology he is well placed to tell students a...

Dr Yvette Hancock of the University of York specialises in quantum technology. She helps us become quantum mechanics ourselves while revealing the ...

Dr Yvette Hancock of the University of York specialises in quantum technology. She helps us become quantum mechanics ourselves while revealing the ...

The IOP for Africa programme is about raising the awareness for the physics for development programme. The importance of developing science and tec...

Researchers from the University of Bristol have created artificial muscles that can be transformed at the flick of a switch to mimic the remarkable...

Seoul University are developing Graphene touch screens. This has amazing implications for the future of touch screen technology.

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Over 50,000 deaths each year in the UK are attributed to air pollution. Physicist, entrepreneur and father Mark Richards is concerned about the env...

American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search a...

This video describes how forensic science expert Dr Melanie Bailey on how she uses forensic physics principles and forensic analysis on gunshot res...

The aurora borealis, or the northern lights, are one of nature's most mysterious displays. In this video, Jim Wild looks at aurora borealis in Icel...

In 'Baths and Quarks', theoretical physics expert David Tong explains solitons and their effect on quarks and protons. 'Solitons' -- solitary waves...

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