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Page from a hieroglyph dictionary

What did the Egyptians have against alphabets?

... you could also have hieroglyphs that would stand on their own as an individual object. so you can have a picture a ...

Why do some airlines permit the use of mobile phones?

... on-board the aeroplane which uses the aeroplane's own communication systems to route your call to whatever ...

If you're deaf, what language do you think in?

... This auditory imagery is most likely to reflect their own auditory experience of speech. Deaf people have also ...

How does a white LED work?

... a mixture of colours and if you were to use LEDs on their own you would need 3 LEDs to make white light. Manufacturers ...

A valentines e-Card

Is sending an e-card environmentally friendly?

... to record it, so his answer is voiced by our very own Ben Valsler... Ben - To calculate the energy cost of the ...

An enigma machine, used by German forces in the Second World War to send coded messages

How do the coding machines used in WWII work?

... the machine worked itself and then they could build their own replicas. The Polish did have methods to break those ...

Robots

Will nanobots destroy the world?

... to design deliberately is something that comes with its own powerpack. That is completely adaptable to all sorts of ...

Traditional incandescent lightbulb

How do touch sensitive switches work?

... work so well to switch the lamp on or off as if it was my own hand? Many thanks. Best wishes, Martin Some modern lamps ...

Is time infinite?

Why is a day divided into 24 hours?

... 1970) up to the current time in seconds and that has it's own problems because, actually, the solar year and the solar ...

Pedestrians walking in a city

What is the maximum human population?

... if you look at the average westerner, we probably eat our own body weight in meat each year and, if you look at the ...

A robotic-looking woman's face behind a wall of computer code.

How is AI changing science for good?

... the moment where they've been looking. So do they mine our own questions? Where have they got those from? But the actual ...

Woman on a bike

What's the most efficient machine?

... so it was probably not ethical. Chris - So that’s your own inbuilt central heating system? Sam - Into heat, yeah. ...

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