It’s a voyage of exploration like no other – to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon and thought to resemble our own early Earth.For a small team of British scientists this would be the culmination of a lifetime’s endeavor – the flight alone, some 2 billion miles, would take a full seven years.This is the story of the space probe they built, the sacrifices they made and their hopes for the landing
Did the Japanese detonate an atomic device just days before they surrendered?– Evidence suggests Japan was just weeks behind the U.S. in the race to build the bomb. – See how the Japanese planned to deliver the deadly device. – Formerly top-secret Japanese documents help tell the dramatic tale.Since the end of World War II, conventional wisdom claimed that Imperial Japan was years away f
The Tiger Tanks Tiger I is the common name of a German heavy tank of World War II. The initial official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausführung H (abbreviated PzKpfw VI Ausf. H, Ausführung is German for “version”) but the tank was redesignated as Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. E in March 1943. The tank also had the ordnance inventory designation SdKfz 181.The Tiger I was in use from l
Arduino, a small, open-source hardware microcontroller platform has been turning heads in it's flexibility as a prototyping platform for a dizzying array of applications, from oscillators to robots to 3d printers, just to name a few. This documentary interviews the revolutionary beginning of the creators behind this movement, and touches upon what it will mean for students, engineers, and gar
Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists, the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider’s web.It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to make bio-diesel to
In the late 1980s, Melbourne was the hub of the computer underground in Australia, if not the world. The hackers who formed the underground were not disgruntled computer professionals or gangs of organised criminals. They were disaffected teenagers who used their basic home computers to explore the embryonic Internet from inside their locked, suburban bedrooms. From this shadowy world emerged two
Before the tents, the pepper spray, the evictions and all of those internet memes, occupy wall street was a desperate group of activists roaming around lower Manhattan. They felt cheated that American politics had become so bloated with corporate money that something had to give.The initial plan to physically occupy wall street itself on September 17th came from the magazine AdBusters. This mo
The stuff of gladiatorial battle is here: good versus evil, right versus wrong, nerd versus super-nerd. In this critically acclaimed arcade showdown, a humble novice goes head-to-head against the reigning Donkey Kong champ in a confrontation that rocks the gaming world to its processors.For more than 20 years, Billy Mitchell has owned the throne of the Donkey Kong world. No one could beat his
One man has pursued a dream his entire working life, lead engineer Alan Bond believes he is now on the threshold of realizing this dream, to build a revolutionary spacecraft that achieves earths orbit in a single leap. If their calculations are correct their revolutionary design will herald a new era in spaceflight.