Scientists use world's fastest 3D printer to create amazingly detailed F1 car. By John Hutchinson Published: 00:31 GMT, 31 March 2012 | Updated: 00:36 GMT, 31 March 2012 Making complex, large 3D structures would normally take hours or even days to perfect. But researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have speeded that up - considerably - and produced grain-of-sand sized objects such as bridges, cathedrals and Formula 1 cars.
It is thought that the world record for producing the nano-objects in the quickest time has been smashed. London calling: Here is nano-scale model of London's Tower Bridge created by a newly developed 3D printing technique for nano structures Great work: The attention detail for such a speeded-up process is incredible, with the making of the roofing clear The attention to detail is exquisite - and the craftsmanship is even more impressive when you appreciate the scale of the endeavour. In the design of London's Tower Bridge, for example, you can make out details in the roof-work of the tower, as well as the railings on the actual bridge. A slice of genius: Thinly cut segments of Einstein's brain go on display in Britain for first time.
Mathematician's brain divided into sections after he diedExhibition also features brain of a murderer, a sufraggette and early computer scientist By Phil Vinter Published: 16:37 GMT, 27 March 2012 | Updated: 16:45 GMT, 27 March 2012 Dr Albert Einstein’s brain is going to be shown in public for the first time in the UK - along with that of an infamous murderer. When he died in 1955, at the age of 76, the famous mathematician's brain was divided into sections, two of which are going on show at the Wellcome Collection in London.
The exhibition entitled Brains: The Mind As Matter also features the brain of a murderer, a sufraggette and one of the pioneers of computer science Sir Charles Babbage. Genius: Following his death in 1955, at the age of 76, Einstein's brain was divided into sections and preserved in formaldehyde. The two slides from Einstein’s brain are on loan from the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, where they were only shown publicly in the US for the first time last year. James Cameron Mariana Trench dive: Film director visits ocean's deepest point. Director becomes first human to visit bottom of trench since January 1960Cuts short dive after hydraulic failureCameron descended 35,756 feet (6.77 miles/10.89km) to reach 'Challenger Deep' in the Mariana TrenchArnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Branson and Jessica Alba tweet support First of several competing missions to deepest point on Earth Mariana Trench is deeper than Mount Everest is highReturned to the surface in faster-than-expected 70 minutesCameron filmed the journey for a feature-length documentary By Rob Waugh and Thomas Durante Published: 21:10 GMT, 25 March 2012 | Updated: 17:14 GMT, 27 March 2012 James Cameron has become the first solo diver to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep - the deepest point on Earth.
But the Avatar director revealed he cut the mission three hours short after hydraulic fluid started leaking into his sub. The 57-year-old described it as ‘a heck of a ride.’ ‘I saw a lot of hydraulic oil come up in front of the port. The port was coated with it. Long way from home: Nasa probe's 'MoonKam' sends back image of Earth seen from the dark side of the moon. By Rob Waugh Published: 12:38 GMT, 23 March 2012 | Updated: 13:08 GMT, 23 March 2012 One of two washing-machine-sized Nasa probes has sent back an astonishing gallery of images from an orbit just 35 miles above the lunar surface. American middle school school pupils at the Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Montana, directed the 'MoonKam' to areas of the surface which caught their attention. The school won a national competition to be first - but other schools around the world will take turns to 'direct' the tiny photographer as it hurtles over the moon.
The gallery of images has been chosen by children - the first of 2700 schools worldwide to 'direct' the cameras on board the pbore Write caption here The MoonKam programme lets American schoolchildren choose their favourite photographs taken by the cameras on board Nasa's Grail probes The images were taken aboard the Ebb spacecraft from March 15-17 and downlinked to Earth on March 20. ESO's Vista telescope captures 200,000 galaxies on one image. The image contains a staggering 200,000 galaxies, taken by the European Observatory's Vista telescope in Chile By Ted Thornhill Published: 11:00 GMT, 21 March 2012 | Updated: 11:00 GMT, 21 March 2012 The widest and deepest view of the sky ever made using infrared light has been produced by the European Southern Observatory’s Vista telescope.
The image contains more than 200,000 galaxies, with tens of thousands of them previously unknown to astronomers. The telescope is stationed at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile and is the most powerful infrared survey telescope in existence. Light fantastic: At first glance it may look unremarkable, but this image in fact contains over 200,000 galaxies, each containing billions of stars It has been trained on the same patch of sky repeatedly to slowly accumulate the very dim light of the most distant galaxies. This is because the expansion of the universe shifts light from distant objects towards longer wavelengths.
Technology. Heat the road, Jack: Two massive nuclear boilers (with combined weight of 50 buses) trundle through normally peaceful village en route to scrapyard. By Nick Enoch Published: 16:54 GMT, 19 March 2012 | Updated: 17:34 GMT, 19 March 2012 A village came to a standstill today as the first of five massive boilers - each weighing more than 25 buses - trundled slowly through the streets to be shipped off for recycling. Roads in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, were temporarily closed to traffic, telephone wires were lifted and street furniture moved.
The operation was launched to accommodate transporters carrying the 310-tonne boilers from the nearby Berkeley power station. Two massive 310-tonne boilers were on the move today from the former nuclear power station at Berkeley in Gloucestershire The extra wide load trundled through the serene village and up the road a few miles to Sharpness docks Berkeley, which is part-way through decommissioning, will be the first former nuclear power station in the UK to remove its boilers and send them for recycling. New temperature record adds 500 new weather stations - and confirms world HAS warmed by 0.75C since 1900. World has warmed by less than a degree centigrade between 1900 and 20122010 is now hottest year on record'Virtually all' data behind new study to be published - in contrast to earlier 'Climategate' scandalNasa image shows how gravity has changed due to melting ice By Rob Waugh Published: 17:17 GMT, 19 March 2012 | Updated: 01:01 GMT, 20 March 2012 Updated records of global temperatures stretching back more than 160 years confirm the world has warmed by 0.75 celsius since 1900, scientists said today.
The new version of a Met Office 'temperature series' dating back to 1850 adds information from weather stations in Africa and from Canada and Russia, where the Arctic is warming more quickly. The full data behind the study is to be available, to prevent a repeat of the 'Climategate' scandal in which scientists were accused of 'editing' climate data to suit their theories of global warming. The Greenland ice shield had to cope with up to 240 gigatons of mass loss between 2002 and 2011. Original E=MC2 scribble posted online with huge Einstein archive¿ including love letters to his second wife and fanmail urging him to get his hair cut.
By Tom Gardner Published: 17:27 GMT, 19 March 2012 | Updated: 12:36 GMT, 21 March 2012 It was a simple mathematical formula that changed the world forever and transformed our understanding of the universe. Now the very note on which Albert Einstein scribbled the revolutionary E=MC2 equation has been put on public display for the first time as part of a major online digital archive. But the amazing collection of documents uploaded does not just include the genius' thoughts on the fundamental laws of physics.
Insight: The astonishing collection includes more than 80,000 documents belonging to Albert Einstein, left - including the revolutionary E=MC2 formula, right - and will all eventually be uploaded to the public website It also features revealing personal documents, including his wedding announcement, a letter in which he proposes a way to solve the Jewish-Arab conflict – and even a cheeky note from a six-year-old schoolgirl telling the renowned mathematician to get a hair cut.