News in 2006

A selection of fairground rides are to be set up at the Science Museum as part of an experiment to discover why people enjoy a thrill.

A new game hopes to get Nottingham all loved up via anonymous text messages.

Full-page feature on the Thrill Laboratory, including a first person account of what it feels like to go on the Miami Trip ride.

Researchers will monitor human body's reaction to determine excitement, pleasure and fear.

Fairground: Thrill Laboratory, at the Science Museum in London.

Fairground: Thrill Laboratory, at the Science Museum in London.

Star man is taken for a ride in the name of science

Fairground: Thrill Laboratory, at the Science Museum in London.

Human guinea pigs wanted for fairground experiment

Equator helps increase public understanding of science in schools. Pupils collect pollution data on the Sussex University campus that is used to generate a map-style representation showing how pollution levels vary across the university.

Your heart is racing, your hands sweating and your head feels as if it is about to burst. But what really happens to our bodies when we expose ourselves to the G- forces and adrenaline rush of scary theme park rides?

Looking to the future of Human Computer Interaction, Tom Rodden presented a vision of a smart kitchen conspiring with his children to stop him reaching into his smart fridge to get another beer because his blood sugar needed watching and the monitoring was saying he'd had enough.

Blast Theory will present Can You See Me Now? at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago this November.

Performance Dates: November 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th from 1 - 4 p.m. (CDT)

Volunteers are going to be asked to try several different fairground rides while hooked up to equipment that tracks their emotional state.

Anthony Steed wanted to know how polluted the air was on his daily cycle commute. So in April 2005 he packed a backpack with a carbon monoxide sensor, GPS receiver and a data recorder, and set off to his office in the computer science department at University College London.

Fairground: Thrill Laboratory, at the Science Museum in London.

Fairground: Thrill Laboratory, at the Science Museum in London (mentioned in Leader).

Fairground: Thrill Laboratory, at the Science Museum in London.

Museum offers fear and nausea in the name of science

Fairground: Thrill Laboratory, at the Science Museum in London.