TECHNOLOGY
Visual tricks appear to quicken downloads Don’t waste money boosting your network speeds: simple optical illusions can make it appear that downloads are happening far quicker
COLLIDERS
Rapper’s revenge – particle-physics-style Fermilab is getting up in the Large Hadron Collider’s face. A new rap video has been released that describes the prospects of finding the Higgs boson at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab in Illinois. The “LHC rapper” known as Alpine Kat, who arguably started the physics-rap genre with her own song in 2008, offers her verdict
GREEN MACHINE
A makeover for the internal combustion engine Even petrol-heads can make carbon-cutting changes to their behaviour. A new breed of engines promise to make better use of the fuel they consume – a small step towards cutting emissions
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TECHNOLOGY
The iPad: touching the future The revolution might not be televised, but could it be “padded”? Our reporter gets hands-on with the iPad – Apple’s latest attempt to redefine what a computer should be
CULTURELAB
Partying on the anniversary of Gagarin’s flight “Yuri’s Night” at NASA’s Ames Research Center was not your average science-based party. We attended the bash to celebrate Yuri Gagarin’s historical journey into space on 12 April 1961, and also the launch of NASA’s shuttle programme, exactly 20 years later
ZOOLOGGER
The archerfish masters the science of spitting From beneath the surface, archerfish hawk jets of water onto prey to knock them down to the surface, where they are devoured. The trick requires eyes adapted for vision in and out of the water
