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Bone Tumor Discovery 12 Jul 2013 | 04:09 pm
June 7 2013 marked another historical day with the discovery of benign bone tumor. This bone tumor believed to be from the rib of Neanderthal who is believed to have lived more than 120,000 years back...
Try this: Connection conniption! 2 Jul 2013 | 11:01 am
You will need A plain mug that you can mark Permanent marker Three whiteboard markers in different colours Making the puzzle With your permanent marker, draw three small separate houses on the mu...
The Ancient Greek social network 2 Jul 2013 | 10:52 am
In the last decade, services such as Facebook have provided scientists with lots of information about current friendship links. However, they tell us little about historical friendships. So what might...
Social Cognitive Development 30 Jun 2013 | 11:14 pm
In the context of social psychology, researchers have spent considerable time striving to acquire information relating to development of cognitive social skills. Apart from human beings acting as stud...
Training Bees for Peace 11 Jun 2013 | 11:12 am
The idea was a crazy one: use bees to find unexploded landmines. This was precisely what Zagreb University professor Nikola Kezic set out to do. The crazy idea turned out to be an ingenious one. Since...
Try this Arrow maze 21 May 2013 | 05:00 pm
You will need Paper Overhead projector sheet or tracing paper Permanent marker Pens or textas A copy of the arrow maze [pdf, 7kB] Solving an arrow maze Although it might not look like it, this puzzle ...
Winning the Abel prize with fancy fields 21 May 2013 | 04:52 pm
Today, one of the biggest prizes in mathematics will be awarded. The organisers have already announced the winner of the 2013 Abel prize – the Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne. Like many great mat...
Motion In The Oceanic Currents: Scientists Find Out Why 13 May 2013 | 03:45 pm
Pulsing Coral Xeniids (ZEE need ids) do a certain exercise nearly 24 hours a day, a voluntary movement unlike any other oceanic creature in existence. What they do is they wave their arms in the air, ...
Approval of second science and technology project 30 Apr 2013 | 05:20 pm
A scientific project which is aimed at facilitating research and innovation in Croatia received funding on Friday as indicated in the press release issued on the international financial institution we...
Try this: Anamorphic art 23 Apr 2013 | 10:47 am
You will need A copy of the anamorphic grid [pdf, 29kB] A copy of the square grid [pdf, 20kB] Pencils and textas A roll of aluminium foil, or some reflective mylar film taped into a cylinder What to d...
