Flora took a foray into business news for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
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Solving MRI mystery sets stage for portable scanners
Physicists have only just cleared up why MRI scans seem to defy established physics, knowledge that could make the devices smaller.
Slapping a tax on playtime
Gamers more used to battling demons, giants and dragons may soon be tackling another mortal enemy – the tax man.
I, Science wins Guardian Student Media Award
I, Science, Imperial College’s science magazine, won runner-up at the Guardian Student Media awards. Flora was online editor of I, Science, and was thrilled to collect the award with some of her colleagues.
Tower of power lights up London
Artists are lighting up London’s South Bank with 1200 wind-powered lights as part of a digital arts festival.
Voice recognition software reads your brain waves
Just by monitoring brain activity, a new program can work out who is speaking to you and what they are saying.
Texting bug hits the Google phone
The bug was discovered when an owner of the phone typed the word “reboot” into a text message after restarting the phone.
Websites set government data free
The finalists included ideas for a map site showing school catchment areas and a service telling people where to find the nearest public toilet.
Mummy, that robot is making faces at me
Robotics engineers at the University of Bristol, UK, have been grimacing a lot recently, thanks to their copycat robotic head, Jules, which can mimic the facial expressions and lip movements of a human being.
Science in Action: Fusion steel
Flora reported from the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Culham, near Oxford—visiting a 200-year-old iron forge on the way!
One of the properties of iron and steel that have made than so good for building materials is that they are pliable at temperatures much lower than their melting point—making them easy to mould and work. But this property makes them fail at very high temperatures—this is what happened during the fires at the World Trade Centre.
Scientists working at the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority are hoping to develop a super-strong steel to withstand the million degree temperatures of their fusion reactors. But first they have to find out why steel goes weak when it gets hot—it’s all to do with magnetism.
Flora Graham reports.