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Science comic of the week: Gravity is rad!

Today, Dinosaur Comics brings us a tale of gravity, friendship and being rad. These tips from Timmy are guaranteed to increase your radness by at least 18%. ☠

Click the comic for a bigger version

Rad links
Find out more about gravity from a physicist.
Seriously, Utahraptor, are you even a real dinosaur?
And who is that mysterious omnivore in the corner? Why it's the lovely Dromiceiomimus.
Finally, check out the BBC's Planet Dinosaur game, but only if you like dinosaurs and games.
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And the winners are.... elephants and crocodiles

Greg du Toit of South Africa is the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 with Essence of Elephants, while 14-year-old Udayan Rao Pawar of India is the young Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his photo Mother's little headful.

© Greg du Toit. Click here to see a bigger version at the Natural History Museum website.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 - sneak preview

In a few hours we will all be astonished when the winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 awards ceremony are revealed.

Photo © Jasper Doest

This competition is in its 49th year and it has the best wildlife photographs. If you don't believe me, just ask Google.

It is for serious wildlife photographers. Many of the winners spend weeks or months staking out a particularly rare species or animal behaviour in order to get the perfect shot.

But it's not just for the pros.

This song explains how the Universe works, or does it?

A Canadian university student has produced a physics version of the classic song Bohemian Rhapsody.

You can watch the song, called Bohemian Gravity, by clicking read more. There is a lot of it that you won't understand, but that's OK, because the song is describing how the Universe works, and the Universe is complicated.

Now you can play Minecraft at school

Minecraft is one of the most popular computer games in the world for school-aged children, and now that popularity is spreading to the classroom.

Learn about space travel. Source: 2P

Minecraft is great. You dig. You create. You show off your creation and your friends are super-impressed. But there is a problem. You want to play it all the time but you just can't.

Why not?

Well, there are annoying distractions like sleeping, eating and going to the toilet. But the biggest problem is school. School takes up a lot of valuable Minecraft time, but no matter how hard you try, your parents just won't let you quit school to take up full-time Minecrafting.

The new iPhone is at your fingertips

Fingerprint recognition might be about to hit the big time with the release of the latest iPhone.

Fingerprints. They're all different. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Among the other revolutionary new features, like different colours and, um, a slightly better camera, Apple has included a much anticipated fingerprint scanner in their top-of-the-range iPhone 5S.

Fingerprint recognition is a type of biometric technology. Other kinds are facial recognition, iris (eye) recognition and voice recognition. All of these technologies work because we are all different, and computers are smart enough to tell us apart.