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Continuing the celebration of Yuri Gagarin's orbit of the Earth in Vostok 1 back in 1961, First Orbit is a documentary film that joins archive footage of the event with modern shots taken from the International Space Station (ISS). The filmmaker, Christopher Riley, collaborated with the European Space Agency to see if it would be possible to film the same
As you'll know from all the coverage, yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first orbit of the Earth by a human. Back in 1961 at the height of the Cold War, it was a demonstration of superiority by one superpower over another rather than any altruistic motive that sent him into space. Regardless of how it was
If you've got a mobile phone from htc or a Samsung Galaxy Tab, then there's a good chance you're looking at the display through Corning glass. Todd talks to James Hollis, Director of Corning Display Technologies, to find out what Corning brings to the electronics market. Well...Gorilla Glass is probably their most well known and flagship product. Developed in 2007,
The politics of the green movement and the polarity of views have often prevented real debate on climate change from happening. Each side will reinforce their opinion with selective facts from the data and use every opportunity to ridicule their opposition's theories. A great deal of the climate discussion that has appeared in the media has been coloured by specious
The first is a over ten years old and is considered to be a classic - just follow the instructions. It's best if you can run it full-screen.
Today is the 98th anniversary of the birth Alan Turing, one of most brilliant minds of the 20th Century. Born on was born on 23rd June 1912 in London, England, he is known as one of the fathers of modern computing, though his ideas for programmable computers were ahead of their time. He is widely know for the test which
On the 16th May 1960, Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Lab in California fired up the first confirmed demonstration of a laser using a synthetic ruby. A few months later on 12th December and persuing a different line of research, Ali Javan at Bell Labs, showed the first helium-neon gas-discharge laser. One of the key differences between the two versions,