Health Broccoli helps clear damaged lungs Broccoli: is there nothing it cannot do? Here's another reason to eat your greens. As well as helping to prevent cancer , broccoli may also help the immune system to clean harmful bacteria from the lungs. A compound found in the vegetable is now being trialled as a treatment for people with lung disease. To … 51¶¯Âþ
Time to rethink megaquakes FOR more than 1000 years, we have known that the seas off the coast of Sendai in Japan can turn treacherous. An account of how one quake unleashed a flood that swept away a castle town can be found in Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku ( The True History of Three Reigns of Japan ), completed in … Opinion
Space Missing matter: Where did half the universe go? Mystery matter Forget dark matter – a vast amount of normal matter visible in ancient gas clouds has gone AWOL. Now astronomers are finding clues to where it's hiding WHEN Isabelle Grenier surveys our galaxy, she sees things that aren't there. Atoms, specifically. Atoms that are present when she looks into deep space, to regions … Features
The wonder of water In The Big Thirst , Charles Fishman argues that inspiring awe for our most essential resource is key to creating effective water solutions WE PAY good money for bottled water. But we will often take a few sips, forget the bottle in the car for a day and throw it away when its contents become … CultureLab
Enigma Number 1643 Divisibility test abcdefghij is a 10-digit number containing one each of the digits 0 to 9 in some order ( a ≠0). With the exception of the letter which represents zero, a divides abcdefghij , b divides bcdefghij , c divides cdefghij and so on to the end. What are the largest and smallest … Regulars
Feedback: When roads burst into song When roads burst into song A CONVERSATION about "hearing maps" between 51¶¯Âþ editor-in-chief Jeremy Webb and Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford in the UK, led somehow or other to the topic of "singing roads". Hearing maps are software packages that architects use to identify potential areas of poor … Regulars