Forget the film Gladiator, for a more accurate representation of how Rome's mighty Colosseum was built, operated and fought in, check out this documentational re-enactment of a famous gladiator's life and times from the BBC.
The mighty Colosseum of Rome was built by Emperor Vespasian between the years AD 70 and AD 80, and was origianally named the Flavian Amphitheatre. Capable of seating ...
Phobos, Mars' small rocky moon, has been imaged closer than ever before by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft. In the latest of its five month period orbital flybys, the Mars Express passed the moon at a distance of 67km, the closest any probe has managed in history. The results are equally as stunning, with these 4.4-metres per pixel images clearly showing the far side of Phobos, illuminating its crater-heavy, rocky nature.
The images also helped show ...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, is set to close for eight to twelve months of 2011 in order to address design issues and conduct general maintanence. The news comes despite good current operational running at reduced power levels, and an imenent world record level of collision energies attempted.
The repairs come after the unfortunate accident in 2008 when the system was shut down due to a helium leak throughout the tunnel. Now operational again, ...
A team of 41 international experts have confirmed that they strongly endorse the theory that the dinosaurs were made extinct largely due to a 15km wide asteroid crashing into Earth. The panel reviewed over 20 years of research to determine their conclusion and writing in the Science Journal, the team rule out many other alternative theories such as mass-volcanism.
The asteroid in question is believed to have hit Earth on the northwestern edge of the Yucatan Penisula, centering ...
The quest to uncover the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has been fraught with difficulties, with scientists and astronomers forced to utilise the cutting edge of technology to observe and record the Sagittarius A* region. As demononstrated in this excellent video, it has been a lenghty and consistently evolving process, which has taken multiple generations to realise, and one which is still far from complete....
Check out this video showing 'Rock Star' physicist Professor Brian Cox talking about his work on the Large Hadron Collider, the current scientific theory on the origin of the universe and what they are hoping to achieve in Geneva, Switzerland.
While in the video Professor Cox is talking prior to the LHC's breakdown in September 2008, repairs to the ...
Your early sample of the next jam-packed issue of How It Works is here
From an interview with the inimitable Johnny Ball to a fascinating introduction to your immune system, issue five is jam-packed with knowledge for you to soak up.
And to kick off the issue and the Formula One season, we have put together a bumper feature dedicated to all things F1. From the cars to the drivers and from ...
Second only to the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall was a triumph of engineering, man-power and military might. However, from its ruinous state today it is difficult to appreciate what an ingenious and ordered system it was, how in many respects it was far from just a large defensive wall. Instead, as demonstrated in this short video from the History Channel, it was a living and breathing hybrid of structures, which over a period of years changed the environment ...
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The world's first vertical takeoff passenger liner.
Although regular readers will remember the incredibly hi-tech V-22 Osprey military helicopter we featured in issue three, this historic video reveals that VTOL technology in its infancy. Like the Osprey, Fairey Aviation's Rotodyne was an aircraft capable of vertical takeoff and landing while carrying a large payload. Whereas the Osprey admittedly has ...
