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WELCOME...

HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY?

THE HUMAN BODY • Organ transplants, wisdom teeth, suncream protection, fingerprints, sense of smell, heart rate and music, phobias, embarrassment...

TALK TO THE HAN

SPACE • Tallest rockets, black holes, Universe expansion, lightning in space, gravitational pull, dark matter, asteroids, constellations, the Sun’s spin cycle...

OVER AND OUT

THE WORLD AROUND US • Computer games, whistling kettles, motion sickness, Facebook, railway tunnels, electric showers, fizzy drinks, online shopping...

WINGED WONDERS

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT • Disposable nappies, the ozone layer, relocating polar bears, traffic noise, acid rain, paper production, melting glaciers, endangered countries...

SPRUCE ON THE LOOSE

ANIMALS • Biggest spiders, smallest sharks, bat sonar, tiger stripes, penguin vision, longest-living mammals, the flight of butterflies, vultures’ stomachs...

BLUE LAGOON

TECHNOLOGY • Games consoles, cyber attacks, fitness trackers, phone hacking, super-computers, YouTube, robotic surgery, smartphone apps...

GREEN STEAM

GENETICS AND EVOLUTION • Learning languages, deadliest viruses, Darwinism, eye defects, gender determination, inherited talent, hairy primates...

GAME OF DRONES

PLANET EARTH • Longest rivers, largest building, thunderstorms, supervolcanoes, human population, snowflakes, the origin of life, gold reserves...

THRILLED TO BITS

MATHS AND PHYSICS • Prime numbers, the Higgs boson, infinity, bets you can’t lose, one-way mirrors, coin tosses, circular rainbows, perpetual-motion machines...

GOING DOWN THE TUBES

HOW DOES A FORMULA E CAR WORK? • What lies beneath the exterior of these electric race cars may well define the future of high-octane, single-seater racing

GECKO ADHESION • The extraordinary ability of this particular reptile to cling to surfaces has long mystified observers. New research suggests that it may all be down to electrostatic attraction...

ROBOT EXOSKELETON • As demonstrated at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, this mind-operated exoskeleton enables sufferers of paraplegia to once again take control of their limbs

SOLAR IMPULSE 2 • Powered by the Sun and only weighing as much as a car, this wide-winged plane can – in theory, at least – traverse the globe without stopping to refuel

SMART CAP • No more will you need to apply nose to milk carton to see if it’s still fresh. Introducing the 3D-printed ‘smart’ bottle cap...

OUT OF THE BLUE