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Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system's gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. Now interstellar...

This weeks solid staple... Concrete

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have found evidence of a new fundamental particle, that could be the much...

What do nerve cells look like, how do they carry information, and how does one nerve connect and communicate with...

Pottery and it's properties...

Piquant Paper from Materialchef

Have a gander at this glorious and glistening material... glass

This week a wholly wonderful material, wood...

This week, the seductive and slinky raw material, rubber. We cook up a scientific treat exploring rubber's origins...

Hydrogen could be a key clean fuel of the future, powering cars, planes and technology. The challenge facing us before...

Whether you're watching a YouTube video, downloading an email, buying a birthday present or linking up with...

Fungi are a biologically important, and often overlooked Kingdom of organisms. In this Naked Science Scrapbook we find...

A lot of the metals we use every day, from car wheels to cutlery, are made from alloys. In this Naked Science Scrapbook...

Why do we feel tired or awake at the wrong times when we go on holiday to a different timezone? In this Naked Science...

When companies can't back up their data themselves, they often turn to data centres. But what do they do? In this...

An autopsy specimen from a 24 year old woman 8 weeks into her first pregnancy, taken to hospital with abdominal pain...

(a) A 1952 operative resection specimen from a 32 year old, admitted with lower abdominal pain, vomiting, headache, and...

An operative resection specimen from a 49 year old woman who complained of abnormal uterine bleeding. No further...

An autopsy specimen from a 71 year old caucasian woman who had never been pregnant . Seventeen years after her...

An operative resection specimen from a 68 year old woman who presented with a protruberant lesion of her vulva which...

A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man who complained of "passing wind in the urine" for two days. A...

A 1940 operative resection specimen from a boy of ten years. Who had acute abdominal pain at noon, vomiting twice and...

A 1930 autopsy specimen from the newly born first child of a woman aged 34 years, delivered by forceps for delay in the...