by Lisa Cardy THE thousands of 'Dyson devotees' around the world breathed a sigh of relief when James Dyson won his High Court battle with arch rivals Hoover at the end of last year. Press
01:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001by Lisa Cardy PhotoDisc.co.uk PEOPLE use them everyday. But how does that black strip on the back of credit cards allow us to buy things and is it safe The strip on the back of a credit card
01:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001by Lisa Cardy IF you want to be cool this summer then a new invention from Australia is just the thing you're looking for. Scientists from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
01:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001by Lisa Cardy THE mechanisation of all kinds of objects and things have been baffling you, but The AnswerBank has ironed your How It Works problems out. rbanucha wanted to know how to make his
01:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001by Lisa Cardy THE Hubble Space Telescope's has given us out of this world pictures of dust storms on Mars, the birth of stars, galaxies, black holes and the edge of the Universe. But how exactly
01:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001by Lisa Cardy SILVER wants to know how microwave ovens work, so here's a whole article on the subject. Microwave ovens are one of the twentieth century's great inventions and are found in most
01:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001by Lisa Cardy THIS was a recent question at The AnswerBank and it got some very thorough replies, click here to see them. Here is some more detail for you: An Australian scientist, Dr David
01:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001by Lisa Cardy THE sight of it may set your pulse racing, but its bite could save your life. US and German scientists have discovered that venom from a tarantula contains a protein that could wipe
01:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001by Lisa Cardy Sea Henge, a 4,000-year-old mysterious circle of oak stumps found off the north Norfolk coast, has caused quite a stir when it was uncovered three years ago. But how exactly do they
01:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001by Lisa Cardy WHAT lives at the bottom of the sea and is red all over, apart from when it's stripped blue and green It's the humble sea mouse, which is actually an iridescent worm. It has a
01:00 Wed 10th Jan 2001by Lisa Cardy CONCORDE may still be grounded after its fatal crash last summer, but already plans for an even faster jet are in the pipeline. The second-generation supersonic jet will travel at
01:00 Wed 10th Jan 2001by Lisa Cardy WE'RE all interested in saving money and Frederick McKee has come up with an idea he claims will slash fuel bills. McKee, an Essex-based engineer has invented a way to keep buildings
01:00 Wed 10th Jan 2001by Lisa Cardy WORRIED about rising fuel prices Remember all too well the chaos of queing for petrol in the recent blockade Then a new car which runs on air will be just the sort of thing you're
01:00 Wed 10th Jan 2001 East German secret police used radiation sprays to track dissidents behind the Berlin Wall. It sounds like a movie fantasy, but a detailled report has revealed how secret agents "with vibrating
01:00 Thu 04th Jan 2001By Anna Tobin THE DINOSAURS are said to have been wiped out by a giant meteor that hit earth many millions of years ago and it is often muted that the human race could meet a similar fate
01:00 Wed 03rd Jan 2001 By Lisa Cardy SCIENTISTS across the world are racing to be the first to patent the make up of hundreds of thousands of genes. But already, controversy is building over the use of the information.
01:00 Wed 20th Dec 2000By Lisa Cardy REMEMBER the sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage It may not be so fantastic, as scientists develop 'mini robots' to travel through the body's bloodstream, attacking tumours and scouring
01:00 Sat 23rd Dec 2000By Lisa Cardy A GROUNDBREAKING larynx transplant operation to give back the power of speech to throat cancer victims could be standard procedure within four years. But there are huge emotional
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