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In the most authoritative book ever written about Apollo, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took part - based around exclusive interviews with the key players. This enthralling book takes us from the early rocket pioneers to the shock America received from the Soviets' launch of the first satellite, Sputnik; from the race to put the first person into space, through President Kennedy's enthusiasm and later doubts, to the astronauts' intense competition to leave the first footprint.

This short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about "nothing". What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - "nothing" - exist? To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists have explored the void and the rich discoveries they have made there. 

للحقيقـــــة، كل القوانين والأفكار الفيزيائية بدأت بلحظة من التّطرف الفكري الغريب وغير المعقول. أينشتاين من العدم تخيل أن الزمن يؤثر على الكتلة والمسافة، وأن السرعة تؤثر على الزمن وبالتالي على الكتلة والمسافة. تخيل مدى التطرف الفكري الذي بدأ به العلماء حتى توصلوا إلى نظرية الأبعاد المتوازية، وأن الأحداث المختلفة جميعها تحدث في آن واحد، لكن بأبعاد مكانية مختلفة.

Hosted by Lenny Vaughn, this podcast explores the invisible physics of sound that transforms music from noise into emotion. Each episode examines how vibrations create goosebumps, trigger memories, and synchronize crowds into shared experiences. Discover why music isn't just heard—it's physically felt and emotionally lived. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, science cannot tell us how to measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or how to sculpt stone into all kinds of shapes, or what it feels like to blow up a balloon of glass. Handmade is the story of materials through making and doing. Author and material scientist Anna Ploszajski journeys into the domain of makers and craftspeople to comprehend how the most popular materials really work.

The Trouble with Physics argues that a limited notion of time is holding physics back. It's time for a major revolution in scientific thought. The reality of time could be the key to the next big breakthrough in theoretical physics. What if the laws of physics themselves were not timeless? What if they could evolve? Time Reborn offers a radical new approach to cosmology that embraces the reality of time and opens up a whole new universe of possibilities.

Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them? Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to...

Is time an illusion? Is time travel possible? Could time end? In this audiobook, A Question of Time, we take an interdisciplinary look at the fourth dimension, exploring the latest thinking on the nature of time and the ways it dominates our physical and mental worlds.

A vivid and captivating narrative about how modern science broke free of ancient philosophy, and how theoretical physics is returning to its unscientific roots In the early seventeenth century Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically...

The Lady from Nowhere by Fergus Hume. The Lady from Nowhere by Fergus Hume is a thrilling mystery novel that keeps readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. The story follows the mysterious Lady Maitland as she arrives in a small English village and quickly becomes entangled in a web of intrigue and deception. Hume does a masterful job of building suspense and creating a sense of foreboding throughout the novel. The plot is full of unexpected twists and turns that will keep readers guessing until the very end. The characters are well-developed and engaging, and the setting ...

The nuclear industry doesn't make headlines when it's working. That's by design. IsoTopics pulls back the curtain on the people, technology, and ideas operating at the backbone of our nation's energy and security infrastructure. Hosted by Omega's Brian Brown, each episode brings forward the voices that rarely get the microphone — the operators, innovators, and guardians doing work most of us will never see but all of us depend on. From the zero-fail demands of nuclear security to the breakthroughs shaping tomorrow's energy landscape, IsoTopics explores what it actually takes to keep this ...

Bienvenue dans "Les coulisses de Perdelle", le podcast qui vous emmène dans l'univers de l'invention et de la créativité. Florence, enseignante universitaire de gestion s'entretient avec Fabrice, l'inventeur de Perdelle, ce dispositif, qui grâce à deux brassières suspendues accompagne et soulage le mouvement de ceux qui l'utilisent. Perdelle, c'est une médaille d'argent au concours Lépine 2021, c'est un succès commercial en France et à l'international, mais c'est aussi une histoire d'innovation, de passion et de foi. Alors, au fil des épisodes, plongez dans les coulisses de la ...

A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history For as long as humans have lived, we have lived beneath the stars. But under the glow of today’s artificial lighting, we have lost the intimacy our ancestors once shared with the cosmos. In Starborn, cosmologist Roberto Trotta...

In David Whitehouse's most ambitious book to date, he explores how human evolution has been intertwined with the workings of the cosmos from the very beginning, and what the far-distant future may hold, both for the universe and for ourselves. Given enough time, Whitehouse contends, we must communicate with intelligent aliens whose divergent perspective will transform our understanding of the universe. First contact may even come sooner than we think. 

Nearly 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson stumbled across a mysterious hiss of faint radio static that was interfering with their observations. They had found the key to unravelling the story of the Big Bang and the origin of our universe. That signal was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the earliest light in the universe, released 379,000 years after the Big Bang.

The UK's #1 space podcast.Science journalist Izzie Clarke and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst whizz through the universe to explore the latest research with leading experts, dive to history from the society’s archives and take on your weird and wonderful questions about all things space. Can we gravitationally hitch-hike out of the solar system? Do we live in a multiverse? What is time? Plus Dr Robert Massey is on hand with his top star-gazing tips.Want to support the show? Join The Supermassive Club for exclusive content, star-gazing forums and ad-free listening... ...

Brought to you by Penguin. An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius: not since Albert Einstein has a scientific figure held such a place in our popular consciousness. In this enthralling memoir, writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow tells the story of his...

Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Listeners learn that, as a consequence of time's personal nature, a 48-hour journey on the Space Shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule and that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages.

Harald Lesch erklärt in seinem originellen Grundkurs naturwissenschaftlich-astronomische Phänomene und ihre Bedeutung für unser Leben anschaulich und allgemein verständlich - wenn er also auf die Welt der dunklen Materie und der Schwarzen Löcher, auf die Entropie und das Überleben angesichts kosmischer wie anthropogener Gefahren oder auf Regentropfenmoleküle, die Erderwärmung oder die Musik des Sonnensystems zu sprechen kommt, so immer vor der Folie unseres täglichen Erfahrungshorizonts.

Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people’s fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. Then as now, he attracted cranks and visionaries in equal number.