Technology Pinching display lets you feel the data A DEVICE that pinches and stretches the skin on the fingertips, rather than prodding and poking it, could revolutionise the way blind people access graphs and maps. Current electronic Braille displays work by raising and lowering an array of pins to form individual characters. But the actuators needed to move the pins up and down … 51¶¯Âþ
Earth How to get extreme milage from ordinary cars Video: 10 Tips to Increase your Fuel Mileage with Jack Martin Jack Martin In a speed-obsessed world, "hypermiler" Jack Martin stands out for going to extremes to squeeze the maximum fuel efficiency from his car. Devin Powell caught up with Martin to find out his top fuel-saving tips – and how hypermiling can change your … Opinion
Space How to make yourself a star Video: World's most powerful laser assembled Watch a video of a megalaser being assembled ASTRONOMY. It may be the venerable grandaddy of science, but over the last century it has been reduced to the poor relation of every other branch of modern science. That's because it is missing one of the foundation stones on which … Features
Review: The Sun and The Moon by Matthew Goodman IN 1835 there was life on the moon, or so people were led to believe. Hoaxed by New York paper The Sun on "recent discoveries" by astronomer John Herschel, many Americans eagerly imagined lunar herds of zebra, unicorns and man-bats. Goodman strips away layers of deception by journalist Richard Adams Locke to fully reveal what … Books & Arts
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Feedback How big is 700 billion? ONE of the problems with the global financial crisis is that the sums of money being discussed are so huge it is difficult to get one's head round them. Attempts by the media to help us conceptualise the figures don't always make it any easier. Take a blog entry entitled … Regulars