Is it something special about the material, or just our fear of spiders...
Question of the Week
We solve the weirdest, wackiest, funniest and funkiest scientific questions, queries and puzzles...
04 February 2008
How do they make, or recycle, oxygen on the international space station?
28 January 2008
This week, we find out if an aeroplane on a treadmill could the plane still take off, and ask how air is made in space...
21 January 2008
Who free-wheels downhill faster, a fatter cyclist or a thinner cyclist?
13 January 2008
This week we find out why boomerangs keep coming back, and ask would a plane on a treadmill still take off, and who...