Turns out the perfect way to store beer is at the bottom of the ocean in cool, complete darkness. Proof? A beer from the 1840s has been retrieved from the bottom of the Baltic Sea. 

When science writer Joshua Foer asks you to close your eyes and imagine a fleet of nude cyclists crashing through your front door, fear not. 

Have you ever seen a Rube Goldberg machine? They're wacky inventions that complete simple tasks incredibly inefficiently. Usually they're gigantic and live in warehouses. But this one fits in a suitcase.

Some people spend their weekends doing woodwork. Some like gardening. But Linden Gledhill? He manufactures snowflakes in his basement.

Maybe the experienced twitchers amongst you are already onto this, but we have just found our new office-meditation tool and/or guide to impressing a select group of friends with uncannily accurate bird-call imitations.

A slim black headband may soon have the power to read our thoughts.

While sci-fi has taught us that future human space colonies will be beset by murderous aliens, hillbilly robots and strange neurological diseases that make all the inhabitants go mad, we still quite like the idea of living in space.

Remember the old boiled-egg-getting-sucked-into-a-bottle trick? Linda Dong does – she's dedicated her online photo project, Simple Science, to "the beauty inherent in simple scientific concepts and experiments".

Alan Turing helped crack the German code in World War II, but was subsequently prosecuted by the British Government for the "crime" of homosexuality. Now, 10,000 Britons want to put him on a bank note.

An average day for Perth zoologist and artist Roger Swainston involves sitting on the seabed with his sketch pad.