Why don't birds get electrocuted when they sit on high voltage power cables? Find out in the latest Naked Science Scrapbook!

Why don't birds get electrocuted on power lines? - Science Scrapbook 10.12.11

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Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system's gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. But now it's so far away that the Solar wind has weakened and a deluge of cosmic particles from intergalactic space is assailing it. Now interstellar space awaits. But where does the Solar system end and this new frontier begin?

Where Does the Solar System End? - Science Scrapbook 13.11.12

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have found evidence of a new fundamental particle, that could be the much sought-after Higgs boson. In this Naked Science Scrapbook we find out what a Higgs boson actually is, and why finding it could help us understand the structure of the universe a little bit better...

What is the Higgs boson? - Science Scrapbook 13.10.07

What do nerve cells look like, how do they carry information, and how does one nerve connect and communicate with another nerve? Find out in this spine-tingling Naked Science Scrapbook episode...

How do Nerves Carry Information? - Science Scrapbook 13.10.04

Hydrogen could be a key clean fuel of the future, powering cars, planes and technology. The challenge facing us before we can switch to this energy-dense fuel has been to produce it cleanly and efficiently. Now a team at the University of Birmingham have developed a way of harnessing the power of microbes to make it for us...

How do we use Microbes to make Biohydrogen? - Science Scrapbook 12.08.16

Whether you're watching a YouTube video, downloading an email, buying a birthday present or  linking up with friends online, you're sending data across the Internet. But how does "the web" actually work, and what lies behind it? Here, in this Naked Science Scrapbook episode supported by 4D Data Centres, all is revealed...

Why don't birds get electrocuted on power lines? - Science Scrapbook 10.12.11

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