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Quick Fire Science
Your quickfire guide to hot scientific topics...
16 January 2014
Crowd funding programmes have raised money for Hollywood films, but now it could even be used to monitor carbon dioxide...
09 January 2014
This week the Michigan town of Hell froze over - but why are temperatures plummeting across America?
11 December 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover has spent that past 15 months exploring a region of the planet called Gale Crater.
05 December 2013
How much energy is generating using renewables?
28 November 2013
An introduction to the history and science of HIV/AIDS
21 November 2013
The 19th November was World Toilet Day. Here's a Quick Fire Science on sanitation, and the future of the toilet
14 November 2013
The 2013 opium harvest was the largest on record. But what is it, and what is its history?
07 November 2013
Australian archaeologists have found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre long.
31 October 2013
With Bonfire Night fast approaching, the chemistry of fireworks and gunpowder receives the Quick Fire Science treatment
23 October 2013
As a new Great British Bake Off champion is crowned, here's your quick fire science on baking...
17 October 2013
With researchers asking for help to track the Spanish slug, here's your quick fire science on invasive species...
10 October 2013
Awarded annually for Chemistry, Physics and Medicine, what are the Nobel Prizes?
26 September 2013
A mummified body known as the Cashel man was recently found to be the oldest so called 'bog body' with intact...
19 September 2013
The largest passenger ship salvage operation ever is currently underway in Italy, as experts try to raise the MS Costa...
11 September 2013
Why is it so hard to breed pandas in captivity, and why are vets unsure whether a panda in Edinburgh Zoo is pregnant?
04 September 2013
The 'Walkie Talkie' in London has been damaging cars this week by acting as a parabolic reflector, targeting...
29 August 2013
Concerns are being raised about cooling water leaks at Fukushima. But how does a nuclear power station work?
22 August 2013
Could trains be built to travel as fast as jet liners?
14 August 2013
What are meteors, and what's the best way to observe them?
08 August 2013
Scientists have grown a burger in the lab, but do we need artificial meat?
01 August 2013
Our recent spell of hot weather in the UK has seen a dramatic rise in the number of jellyfish in UK waters. But what...
25 July 2013
Claudia and Priya give you 11 facts about organ donation and the World Transplant Games
18 July 2013
A team at Toronto university won the “Igor I. Sikorsky Competition” by building a man-powered helicopter...
11 July 2013
A baby was born in the US this week, thanks to a new genetic screening technique for IVF embryos