NMDHS Marauders

"The BBC's Jeremy Cooke has been to an eco-friendly GM pig farm in Canada to find out more. "

"The stereo movie has been adapted to human binocular vision. The movie does not represent what you would actually see with your two eyes if you visited a real black hole. In reality, the curved spacetime would distort wavefronts of light away from spherical, confusing your binocular perception. The conflicting visual cues might make you feel queasy. But the failure of binocular vision is merely a limitation of beings who have evolved in flat spacetime. Trinocular vision would work fine."

Scale model plans for a working trebuchet

"Watch what happens with these diamonds (no camera tricks or special effects used here)"

Winter Solstice - Total Lunar Eclipse 2010 - TIME-LAPSE Total eclipse on winter solstice. 4.5 hours shortened to a minute and thirty seconds.

"Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world. E.O. Wilson is such a man."

""National surveys in both the United States and Canada indicate that most people receive enough calcium, with the exception of girls ages nine to 18, who often do not take in enough calcium," Tuesday's report reads. "In contrast, post-menopausal women taking supplements may be getting too much calcium, thereby increasing their risk for kidney stones.""

"Compilation of high-speed video's of flying snakes Chrysopelea paradisi"

"Take a trip with a tower worker as he "free climbs" a 1,700+ ft tower. Stair way to heaven."

"The team proved that among their 10 million antiprotons and 700 million positrons, 38 stable atoms of antihydrogen were formed, lasting about two tenths of a second each."

""Although the tiny fireballs will only exist for a fleeting moment (less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second) the temperatures will reach over ten trillion degrees, a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun," said Dr Evans."

High-Speed Flash Photography using CHDK( Canon Hack Development kit), laser pointer and a simple analog circuit to capture milk drops splashes!

"Lack of aerobic fitness may impair how the heart copes with the stress of running a marathon, Larose and his colleagues said. "This is not a permanent injury that will leave any type of scar," said Larose, a professor of medicine at Laval University at Quebec City."

"Optical illusions are more than just a bit of fun. Scientist Beau Lotto is finding out what tricking the brain reveals about how our minds work. Here he explains his findings. "

"In 1975, a new word came into use, when a maverick mathematician made an important discovery. So what are fractals? And why are they important? "

"A team of planet hunters led by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (three times the mass of Earth) orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone," where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. If confirmed, this would be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet discovered and the first strong case for a potentially habitable one."

"Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature."

"Aviation history was made when the University of Toronto's human-powered aircraft with flapping wings became the first of its kind to fly continuously. The "Snowbird" performed its record-breaking flight on August 2 at the Great Lakes Gliding Club in Tottenham, Ont., witnessed by the vice-president (Canada) of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world-governing body for air sports and aeronautical world records."