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20 Doctor Who Stories That Are Based On Real Science
Sometimes Doctor Who plays fast and loose with science. (Just like Star Trek and Star Wars.) But this show was created, in part, to teach science to children, and its producers used to subscribe to New Scientist. Here are 20 Doctor Who stories which are based on real scientific ideas.
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Geologists Found A Rock That’s ‘Older Than Earth’ In The Australian Outback
Geologists working in Australia have recovered a primordial meteorite that fell to Earth this past November. Using an extensive camera system and some pretty sophisticated maths, the researchers recovered the 4.5-billion-year-old rock just moments before heavy rains would have washed it away.
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Watch How A Bow And Arrow Slices Ballistic Gel Like It’s Nothing
Video: We’ve seen ballistic gel get lit up with bullets before and how the bullets lodged themselves inside, so here’s what happens when a compound bow and arrow is used to shoot at ballistic gel. GY6vids uses a chisel tip 3-blade broadhead arrow and a compound bow to try and puncture (that’s probably not a…
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Stunning Time Lapse Shows The Skyscraper In Dubai Engulfed In Fire
Video: On New Year’s Eve, the 63-storey Address hotel in Dubai caught on fire. It was a scary sight made worse as the back drop to the fire was the Burj Khalifa (and Dubai’s New Year celebration). The entire skyscraper seemed to be burning! But thankfully only 14 people suffered injuries. This time lapse by…