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 Football of the future
Football is the most popular sport on the planet and while it has changed a lot over the last forty years the basic game is still the same as it was a hundred years ago. Not for long! Science and engineering are beginning to play a significant role in the development of the game. Find out more |
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 Txtonyms
Ever noticed how your mobile phone always seems to pick the wrong word when you're using predictive text messaging?
Find out why |
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| How should the Italian job really end? |
| Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - The Telegraph |
| For cliffhanging endings, it is hard to beat the 1960s classic. With their coach see-sawing over a precipitous drop, Caine's gang face a choice of saving themselves or risking all to retrieve their ill-gotten gold. Now scientists want to know what that idea could have been. |
| Third of girls want to be a model |
| Friday, October 03, 2008 - Daily Mirror |
| A new survey by NOISE has found that one in three teenage girls wants to grow up to be a model... or a movie star.
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| Women would rather be housewives than engineers |
| Friday, October 03, 2008 - Daily Mail |
| A survey by NOISe has found that out of 500 girls aged 13-18, just four per cent of girls dream of being an engineer while a surprising 12 per cent said they want to grow up to be a housewife.
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| Girls choosing camera lenses over microscopes |
| Friday, October 03, 2008 - The Guardian |
| According to a new survey by NOISE,teenage girls would much rather be models or actors than scientists or doctors. Just 4% are interested in training as engineers, compared with 12% who said they wanted to be a housewife. Only 14% are keen to be scientists, compared to almost a third (32%) who want to be models. |
| Career Aspirations |
| Friday, October 03, 2008 - GMTV |
| A new survey by NOISE found that just 14% of girls were interested in becoming scientists, and more than a third (35%) are put off careers in science because they don't know enough about them.
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| Science & Engineering in the news |
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I was a premature baby who very nearly missed my chance of life, but now I'm a.. rocket scientist |
| Story of a girl who was born severely prematurely but is now working for NASA |
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The mother of all inventions |
| The Science Museum, favourite haunt of aspiring astronauts and eccentric professors, celebrates its centenary this month. To mark the occasion, it is today launching a public vote to choose the most important scientific invention of the past few centuries |
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Inside the house of the future |
| Inside the house of the future |
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Robot achieves scientific first |
| A laboratory robot called Adam has been hailed as the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators.
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She only gets out of bed for 10,000 volts |
| Japanese scientists have developed the first robotic female fashion model |
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