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Click on the magazine cover to get a pdf copy of the magazine. Helping with healthcare The trouble with healthcare is that it’s becoming ever more expensive: new drugs, new treatments, more patient…| cs4fn
Click on the magazine cover to get a pdf copy of the magazine. Helping with healthcare The trouble with healthcare is that it’s becoming ever more expensive: new drugs, new treatments, more patient…| cs4fn
For many of us, the deep sea is a bit of a mystery. But an exciting interactive digital tool at the National Museum of the Royal Navy is bringing the seabed to life! It turns out that the sea floor is just as interesting as the land where we spend most of our time (unless … Continue reading The Digital Seabed: Data in Augmented Reality→| cs4fn
Here is a little science experiment anyone can do to help understand the physics of marine animals and their buoyancy. It helps give insight into how animals such as ancient ammonites and now cuttlefish can move up and down at will just by changing the density of internal fluids.* (See Ammonite propulsion of underwater robots). … Continue reading An experiment in buoyancy→| cs4fn
Image by M W from Pixabay Intending to make a marine robot that will operate under the ocean? Time to start learning, not just engineering and computing, but the physics of marine biology! And, it …| cs4fn
Image from Pixabay Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay Before there were computers, there were people who computed… The original meaning of the word computer was a human who di…| cs4fn
Issue 29: Diversity in Computer Science. Early black computer scientists have been celebrated less than they deserve until recently but have been integral to the development of computing past, pres…| cs4fn
Click on the magazine cover to get a pdf copy of the magazine. Too important to be left to men Women have been at the forefront of computer science and electronic engineering from the outset. Does …| cs4fn
Click the cover to download the magazines Mad for Mars? Obsessed with the Oort cloud? Really quite crazy about quasars? No one could blame you. The lure of unexplored territory is amazingly powerfu…| cs4fn
What if there was Computer Science in Middle Earth?…Computer Scientists and digital artists are behind the fabulous special effects and computer generated imagery we see in today’s movies, but for a bit of fun, in this series, we look at how movie plots could change if they involved Computer Scientists. Here we look at an alternative … Continue reading Film Futures: The Lord of the Rings→| cs4fn
In an age of satellite navigation when all ships have high-tech navigation systems that can tell them exactly where they are to the metre, on accurate charts that show exactly where dangers lurk, why do we still bother to keep any working lighthouses? Lighthouses were built around the Mediterranean from the earliest times, originally to … Continue reading Why do we still have lighthouses?→| cs4fn
Which band was the first to stream a concert live over the Internet? The Rolling Stones decided, in 1994, it should be them. After all, they were one of the greatest, most innovative rock bands of all time. A concert from their tour of that year, in Dallas, was therefore broadcast live. Mick Jagger addressed … Continue reading The first Internet concert→| cs4fn
Whenever humans have complicated, repetitive jobs to do, designers set to work making computer systems that do those jobs automatically. Autopilot systems in airplanes are a good example. Flying a commercial airliner is incredibly complex, so a computer system helps the pilots by doing a lot of the boring, repetitive stuff automatically. But in any … Continue reading Let the brain take the strain→| cs4fn
Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon. Image by Neil Armstrong, NASA via Wikimedia Commons – Public Domain You have no doubt heard of Neil Armstrong, first human on the moon. But have you heard of…| cs4fn
We send out around 18,000 free printed versions of these mini puzzle booklets to over 460 subscribing schools and home educators. If you would like copies of our next issue please ask your teacher …| cs4fn
Computing is for all. Anyone can be a Computer Scientist or Electronic Engineer if they love the subject, put their mind to it, and put the work in. Some of the most amazing, the absolute greats, w…| cs4fn
Image by CS4FN based on an illusion by Ouchi When disasters involving technology occur, human error is often given as the reason, but even experts make mistakes using poor technology. Rather than b…| cs4fn
Pots are buried in the walls of medieval churches and monasteries across Europe: in the UK, Sweden, Denmark and Serbia. Why? Are they just a weird form of decoration? Actually, they are there to fix problematic acoustics. The problem First of all, what do we mean by ‘problematic’ acoustics? When sound waves move around a … Continue reading Pots fixing problematic acoustics→| cs4fn
Image by Felix Heidelberger from Pixabay (cropped) The 2025 tennis championships are the first time Wimbledon has completely replaced their human line judges with an AI vision and decision system, …| cs4fn
Click on the above to go to the magazine special issue on Alan Turing The grandfather of computing Alan Turing is the most significant computer scientist of the 20th century. In his short life, he …| cs4fn
Image by geraldrose from Pixabay There are many myths and stories about how different animals gained their distinctive patterns. In 1901, Rudyard Kipling wrote a “Just So Story…| cs4fn
Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay In the 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show there was one garden that was about technology as well as plants: The Avanade Intelligent Garden exploring how AI might be…| cs4fn
Image from a set of wartime photos of GC&CS at Bletchley Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A group of enthusiasts at Bletchley Park, the top secret wartime codebreaking base, rebuilt a…| cs4fn
Annie Easley. NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Annie Easley was a pioneer both as a computer programmer but also as a champion of women and minorities into computer science. She went from…| cs4fn
Computer Scientists talk about “Syntactic Sugar” when talking about programming languages. But in what way might a program be made sweet? It is all about how necessary a feature of a language is, a…| cs4fn
Celebrating LGBTQ+ Greats Thousands of programming languages have been invented in the many decades since the first. But what makes a good language? A key idea behind language design is that they s…| cs4fn
Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay Superheroes don’t just have physical powers. Often they come out on top because of their mental abilities. Sherlock is a good example, catching vi…| cs4fn
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Truth tables are a simple way of reason about logic that were popularised by the 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. They provide a very cl…| cs4fn
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. His interest was in logic and truth, language, meaning and ethics. As an aside …| cs4fn
Primary Puzzles 1 UK Schools order print copies of our Primary Puzzles magazines and booklets here (while stocks last). Logic for life Logic and deduction are core thinking skills but also an impor…| cs4fn
