Life Dinosaur in a wind tunnel tests feathered flight Getting ready to glide in the wind tunnel Video: Microraptor in wind tunnel reveals flight secrets A life-sized model of a dinosaur has been suspended in a wind tunnel to help test how feathered dinosaurs might have taken to the air roughly 125 million years ago. The results suggest that the small, four-winged creatures of … 51¶¯Âþ
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Enigma Number 1768 Die hard I wanted a cube-shaped dice with each of three of its faces having a perfect square number of spots and each of the remaining faces having a prime number of spots. To follow convention I wanted each face to have a different number of spots and I also wanted opposite pairs of faces … Regulars
Feedback: Amazing miracle water Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Amazing miracle water SEVERAL readers have written to us about astonishing claims in an article in the Irish Independent on 25 August. Headlined "Wave goodbye to global warming, GM and pesticides", it extols the alleged virtues of a horticultural water-treatment … Regulars