Invention
Women in Science: Problems are the root of invention
In the UK alone more than a thousand people die from falls on the stairs each year, and falls in older people cost the NHS over £1 billion per year.
By Ruth Amos | Notebook, Opinion, Science & Technology | Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 12:00 am
What the story of the ATM teaches us about innovation
45 years ago this week, an innovation which brought the British banking industry into the modern age was installed in Enfield, north London – the cash machine. Truly innovative for its time, the ATM was the brainchild of one man, John Shepherd-Barron, after a brainwave when noticing how technology behind vending machines could be applied to banking.
By Stephen Caddick | Notebook, Opinion, Science & Technology | Monday, 25 June 2012 at 12:38 pm
The genius of everyday objects
Physics was never my favourite subject. The two traumatic years I spent studying it for GCSEs were a haze of misunderstood equations and botched experiments. But in the midst of all the stress, there was one voice of reason – my physics teacher. His refrain of ‘it’s just common sense’ had the power to suddenly illuminate the simplicity behind the initially unfathomable.
By Radhika Kapila | Notebook, Science & Technology | Monday, 19 December 2011 at 12:34 pm
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