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New 杏吧原创 TV: June round-up In this month鈥檚 edition, see how smell gets up a shark鈥檚 nose, illusions that occur when we look at ambiguous scenes, and how science could help soccer stars bring home the World Cup
BIOMED
A spoonful of GIV3727 helps the medicine go down A bitter-blocking chemical could take the aftertaste out of artificial sweeteners and make unpleasant-tasting antibiotics easier to swallow
TECH
Giant airship to carry science back to the 1930s E-Green Technologies鈥� blimp, due to launch in the next few months, harks back to the glory days of the Zeppelin, though it is only a quarter of the size. The airship鈥檚 first payload will be a soil moisture experiment: watch our video of the blimp being inflated
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BIOMED
How does acupuncture work? It stimulates the release of natural painkillers, researchers claim, providing a physiological mechanism for how the ancient Chinese treatment might work
INNOVATION
Beating the biogas bogey Methane-capture technology could have a dramatic impact on global warming. But developing such technologies won鈥檛 be easy
SPACE
Aircraft smashes record for longest scramjet flight A sleek aircraft called the X-51A WaveRider has set the record for the longest hypersonic flight using an air-breathing scramjet engine. The craft smashed the record set by NASA鈥檚 X-43 vehicle. Watch the video
ZOOLOGGER
Velvet worm spews 鈥榮ticky glass鈥� on prey Small insects be warned: Euperipatoides rowelli is on the hunt, and it has a unique method of immobilising you