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Water on Mars? Has there ever been life on Mars? This is the topic of many hot debates among scientists. American scientist Erin Kraal uses simple experiments to learn more about the necessary conditions for life on the Red Planet. Read the article here>>. Watch our film Water on Mars here>>. Latest News, 21 February 2008: Erin Kraal published the cover article in this week's Nature, the world-famous science journal. |
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Freakonomics, a book full of surprises Did you know that cocaine dealers make very little money and that this is why they live with their mothers? Do you know why teachers, as well as sumo wrestlers (the big fat guys), cheat? Or, why Ku Klux Klan-men (the white racists with the hoods) operate just like real-estate agents? You wouldn't expect to get answers to those questions in an ordinary economy book. But see Freakonomics. Two young Copernicus Editors tell you about this highly original book. >>read more ... |
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Celebrities and Science Read about Scientific Bullshit from the mouths of worldfamous actors, fashion models and popstars. Many people believe everything their favourite celebrity says. Because they admire them and see them as a role model. That's why a new organisation in Britain Sense about Science fights nonsense that celebrities want us to believe. Because sometimes they spread nonsense that's really harmful.
Read Dr Flip's article in our popular series Scientific Bullshit here>> |
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Build a Spaghetti Bridge Arie and Marc, two Young Scientists from the Netherlands tested different bridge constructions using just pieces of spaghetti. Spaghetti is the ideal material to test steel bridges because, on a small scale, this material has similar properties like steel in the real-life bridge. Follow their example and enter the exciting world of Bridge Design. |
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Predict Earth's Fate When You're 26 Dutch scientist Appy Sluijs will receive a major science award during the next General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union next April in Vienna. He is the youngest scientist ever to receive this award. Appy's research took him on board of a drilling ship to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and the North Pole. He also went hunting for mammal fossils in the Wyoming desert. Like many geologists he lives an adventurous life. |
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Rap music has a bad influence on teenagers: bullshit or fact?
Rap music has a bad influence on young people. So the newspapers say because this is what they think the scientists say. American psychologists claim to have proven that rap lyrics containing lots of sex and violence make kids want to follow their example.
Then do your own research and find out what's true about the claim that rap music has a bad influence on you. experiment>> |
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Film Review
Ice Age 2, the Meltdown. The heroes from the first Ice Age film return in another fantastic adventure. It's a nice film, but the science is less convincing. |
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Europe Under Attack
Meteorites shoot across the sky every day. Every now and then a really big one strikes the Earth. How dangerous are they? Can they destroy a city, kill us? |
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Experiments
as always in Copernicus, every article goes with an experiment that you can do at home or in school. Become a scientist yourself
Are meteorites dangerous? What happens when they hit the surface of the Earth? Could they, one day, cause our extinction? After all, this is how the dinosaurs came to their end. |
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anomaly!
Scientific Revolutions do not happen just like that. Someone discovers that something is wrong about a theory. Some facts just do not fit with explanations that everybody believes are true. We call this an anomaly: something you can see, touch and measure that cannot be true. This fact can only be true when you change the theory, in other words, change ideas to explain these facts. When a scientist smells an anomaly he knows he is on the track of a scientific revolution. Read how Copernicus moved the Universe here>>
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Scientific Bullshit
Scientific nonsense, pseudoscience and fraud, including nonsense in schoolbooks. You can also report about scientific nonsense.
Do we feel it when someone is staring at us behind our backs? Does telepathy exist? Can we read other people's minds?
read more about telepathy in The 100th Monkey Effect>> |
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