It's an instrument that was used to test the hardness ... a weight down the tube and measuring how high it bounces back, hence the numbered marks. "This is for removing a cork from a wine bottle ...

Landing a monster carp is every angler's dream, but it takes the right carp fishing rod to make it a reality. The cornerstone ...

Although the real test was the next day when I fought ... graphite blank to bring sensitivity to the setup. A cork fore grip and shrink tube rear handle just add to the ergonomics.

At 3pm on April 26, 1985, having been plugged into the test board attached to the BBC Micro ... Loading was complete, and the Tube, an expansion interface for the BBC Micro, was up and running.

Fishing on the bottom with chunks of blue crab, ladyfish and oily baitfish, suspending live shrimp or crabs under a popping cork, free-lining baitfish near ... slinging lures is easier with 10- to ...

Their time was six hours 32 minutes and 5 seconds, but team test tube took 50 minutes and 18 seconds off that to enter the record books. Mr Sturge said: "I have a cunning idea of being a team of ...

Usually, scientists study these changes by testing proteins in a test tube or in human cells. But those methods can be slow, expensive and sometimes hard to do. So the UC San Diego researchers ...

A runner who completed the London Marathon as part of a ten-strong team dressed as a test tube rack said it was like "trying to manoeuvre an articulated lorry down a country lane". Graham Sturge ...

Traditional methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at UC San Diego have developed a new simple approach to rapidly check on human gene changes and ...