UK researchers based in Surrey have designed an ingenius new device to clear the multitude of space junk orbiting around Earth. The device, named the CubeSail, will orbit Earth dragging some of the estimated 5,500 tons of man made debris out of space with a large, 25-metre-squared plastic sheet. This dragging effect is caused as residual air molecules still present in the spacecraft's low-Earth orbit catch the sheet and pull the object out of the sky ...

A fast-paced video about NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the new NASA mission launched in February this year that will produce images of the Sun that are ten times greater quality than HD. Check out this energetic video that offers a sneak peek of the mission and its people.

Sim Man 3G – known as Simon to his friends – is an amazing new teaching aid Simon is a completely wireless robot who can behave and react in the same way a sick patient would. He can bleed, cry, speak, and even have a fit – all of which has been helping medical students lucky enough to have access to the doll. Until recently Simon had only been ...

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 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used as a stadium for ...

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 demonstrated in this excellent video, it has been a lengthy 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 system have now been completed and the scientists at CERN ...

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 and culture of the areas it ran through....

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 state-of-the-art tilt rotors, the Rotodyne featured a combination of static ...

Man captures rare close-up footage of an iceberg collapsing Capturing an iceberg collapsing or calving is a rare sight, and this couple filming off Labrador, Canada, picked up their camcorder just in time to catch the dramatic event. The pair and their dog are clearly excited about what they've just witnessed, but are soon chased away by a rush of smashed up ice that starts floating towards them. For ...

Check out this video from National Geographic in which a liger supercat has been engineered by mating a male lion with a female tiger. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD6vpheUoPE[/youtube] At 900 lbs, supercat Sinbad dwarfs the mighty Bengal Tiger's average weight of 520 lbs, a full 380 lbs heavier. In fact, at 900 lbs, Sinbad weighs roughly the same as both his father and mother combined! Despite a liger's obvious physical dominance, they only exist in captivity as tigers and lions would never voluntarily mate in the wild, and further, live in different regions and environments. ...