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A crime scene investigator

Police forensic scientist reviews the best (and worst) cop dramas

10 June 2025

Police crime procedurals are among the most popular genres on TV, but how much do they reflect reality?
A digital scan of the RMS Titanic

The Titanic's twin: Digitally exploring the famous shipwreck

13 May 2025

The world's most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic, has a digital twin
John Harrison marine timekeeper at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The clocks that helped define time from London's Royal Observatory

1 May 2025

From sundials to atomic clocks, London's Royal Observatory explores the timepieces that helped shape the world
Elizabeth Ruth Belville receives a timekeeping certificate from an official at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, circa 1903. Once Belville has the accuracy of her watch, which she calls 'Arnold', confirmed in this way, her task is to 'take the time' round businesses in the West End and City of London. Belville's work was the means of ensuring standard time in the city before the advent of radio.

Ruth Belville: How the Greenwich Time Lady kept London ticking

4 April 2025

In the 1800's the Greenwich Time Lady would take her stopwatch to the Royal Observatory, then travel all over London so her clients could synchronise their timepieces with hers
Andrew Herbert is recreating EDSAC at the National Museum of Computing

How the EDSAC computer changed science in the 1940s and 50s

7 March 2025

Volunteers at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, UK, have been constructing a working replica of an EDSAC machine, one of the world's earliest general-purpose computers.
2024 review: The best new robots of the year

2024 review: The best new robots of the year

28 December 2024

×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ's round-up of some of the best new robots of 2024
Suzanne Treister, Fictional Videogame Stills/Are You Dreaming?

Electric Dreams is past echo of today’s debates on AI-generated art

28 November 2024

Tate Modern exhibition explores past echoes of today’s debates about virtual reality and AI-generated art

The sci-fi films and TV that explore AI in eerily prescient ways

9 November 2024

Hollywood has been imagining the impact AI might have on our lives for decades, but how accurate are these portrayals?
World Rallycross championship in Portugal, battle of the technologies

Electric vehicles race combustion cars in 'battle of technologies'

12 September 2024

‘Battle of Technologies’ sees electric vehicles and combustion cars compete at the highest level. Who will win?
NASA's Valkyrie humanoid robot

Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s humanoid robot paving way to the moon and Mars

11 September 2024

NASA’s Valkyrie is undergoing tests to understand what it would take to get a humanoid robot onto offshore facilities or into space. ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ's James Woodford took the controls to see what it is capable of

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