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National Museum of Computing tells "huge part" of tech history in new software gallery

A robotics display and examples of how software infiltrates everyday domestic items are among the highlights in a new four-section display volunteers say has proved "great fun".

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Rustless: Harry Brearley and the Impact of Stainless on Everyday Life at Kelham Island

A century after Harry Brearley hit upon the formula for "rustless" steel, a renamed room and two displays at Kelham Island Museum honour the Sheffield lad's achievements.

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Science Culture24/7: Seismic stations, liposuction fat and insect eating for April 2013

Bones in Coventry, pests in London, steel science in Sheffield and rumbles and groans in Manchester in our round-up of some Science and Nature highlights this month.

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Beneath and Beyond takes seismic upheaval to the Museum of Science and Industry

Live seismic recordings from 50 stations around the world – including ones beneath Greater Manchester – help create a unique sound and video installation at the MOSI.

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Robots invade York for invention-themed National Science and Engineering Week

More than 4,000 events are taking place across Britain for the annual British Science Association festival, including Victorian tours in Newcastle and a packed schools programme.

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We Made it – Nuts, Bolts, Gadgets and Gizmos gallery opens at Thinktank Birmingham

Cars, cows, aluminium and mobile phones feature among 1,200 objects and 20 interactive exhibits in a new gallery charting Birmingham's productive past.

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Watershed residencies create drawing robot and rotting Geiger-Müller Sound System

A robot capable of making original drawings and a rotting 19th century harmonium represent the results of art-technology experiment the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol.

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Postboxes in Bristol to speak to public via text after PAN Studios win Playable City Award

People in Bristol will be able to exchange messages with bollards, benches and other street objects in a project devised by the £30,000 winners of a digital art competition.

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Raspberry Pi chicken shames cupboard raiders on Twitter as MOSI teams up with uni

The Museum of Science and Industry's STEM team and the University of Manchester have collaborated on a series of workshops allowing children to create revolutionary gadgets.

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Oldest digital computer rebooted at The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley

Sixty-one years after it was made for an atomic research department, the "charmed life" of the 2.5-tonne Harwell Dekatron has found its latest home.

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Manchester Science Festival: Nine days of big bangs, quantum physics, comedy, kids' stuff...

Manchester's annual nine-day, multi-venue festival of Science kicks of this weekend with a dizzying array of events for kids, families and adults.

Young Scientist of the Year competition pays tribute to inventor of electric motor

Sixteen teenage finalists will gather at the Royal Institution to compete in a series of tasks involving electromagnetism on the 200th anniversary of Michael Faraday's invention.

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"Unique" Google Web Lab takes power of the Internet to the Science Museum

An eight-piece harmonious robotic orchestra and a real-time visualisation which groups and "categorises" visitors are among the highlights in a show hailing the power of the net.

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Iron sculpture takes shape at Ironbridge Gorge thanks to massed effort of 75 blacksmiths

A new sculpture marking the achievements of Abraham Darby is taking shape at Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire thanks to members of the British Artist Blacksmiths Association.

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Japanese Honda engineer leaves family holiday for one-off Anson Engine Museum opening

A leading engineer from a Honda plant in Japanese persuaded curators to open the Cheshire museum outside of normal hours so he could take a look at a pioneering engine.

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