All About Space
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SATURN
With its moon system, rings of dust and ice and occasionally tempestuous atmosphere, there’s more to this gas giant than meets the eye
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All About Space
NASA ASTRONAUT VICTOR GLOVER “BEING IN SPACE IS LIKE LIVING A DREAM”
Serving as a pilot on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, the astronaut reveals the most scary thought that’s entered his head, his thoughts on spacewalking and returning to Earth during a pandemic
6 min |
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All About Space
COLD, DAMP MARS MAY HAVE HOSTED AN ANCIENT OCEAN
Northern parts of the Red Planet could have supported bodies of liquid 3 billion years ago
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BBC History Magazine
“We have believed the Normans' view of themselves for too long”
JUDITH A GREEN talks to David Musgrove about her new book, which takes readers far beyond the familiar story of 1066, and provides a richer understanding of the Normans’ complex place in the wider history of Europe
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March 2022
BBC History Magazine
“THE WEEK THAT CHANGED THE WORLD”
Following years of icy silence between the US and China, on 21 February 1972 president Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing for an unprecedented diplomatic mission. Rana Mitter explores how the two sides viewed an encounter that augured China’s entrance onto the global stage
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March 2022
BBC History Magazine
The secrets of the stones
Where did Stonehenge’s megaliths come from? Were they transported to Wiltshire by glacier or human hand? And how long did this Neolithic building project take? As a major exhibition on Stonehenge opens at the British Museum, Mike Pitts uses the latest research to answer the big questions about the construction of this ancient wonder
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March 2022
BBC History Magazine
MY HISTORY HERO
Actor, comedian and BBC DJ Craig Charles chooses
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March 2022
BBC History Magazine
A SPACE MENAGERIE
During the space race, animals pavedthe way for humans to travel beyond Earth. Stephen Walker shines a light on these largely forgotten creatures and their often fatal journeys
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March 2022
BBC History Magazine
What Drove the Witch-Hunters' Cruel Crusade?
They tortured, tricked and terrorised suspects into confessions - often with undisguised relish. So, asks Marion Gibson, should the witchfinders of 16th and 17th-century Europe be dismissed as sadists and charlatans?
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March 2022
BBC History Magazine
Digging for Victory
When war broke out in 1939, food shortages posed just as grave a threat to Britons as a German invasion. From Dig for Victory to the land girls, John Martin charts a nation’s battle with starvation
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March 2022
BBC Countryfile Magazine
The Magic of Wild Words
In 2017, a children’s book was published to treasure the disappearing language of nature. It became a worldwide hit that has now spawned two musical albums. Annabel Ross met author Robert Macfarlane to explore the phenomenal power of The Lost Words
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March 2022
All About Space
WHAT IS DARK MATTER MADE OF?
The phenomena may have come from quantum bags that got squished together in the early universe
3 min |
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All About Space
MILLIONAIRE MOON TOURISM
Fancy a trip around the Moon? That’s what Space Adventures is offering to anyone able to afford the multimillion-dollar price tag
3 min |
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All About Space
GOING BACK TO THE MOON
This year, NASA will take the first step in returning astronauts to the lunar surface
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BBC History Magazine
Who is Britain's greatest monarch?
This year marks the platinum jubilee of Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch. But which of the kings and queens since 1066 made the biggest mark on history? We asked 12 experts to offer their nominations - and to explain what made each one truly great
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February 2022
All About Space
GENERAL RELATIVITY PASSES ITS TOUGHEST TEST YET
The theory, which Albert Einstein published in 1915, remains undefeated
2 min |
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BBC History Magazine
Cursed lives
MARION GIBSON recommends an evocative deep-dive into a witchcraft trial that rocked 17th-century New England
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February 2022
All About Space
WHAT IS A LIGHT YEAR?
How we measure vast distances across the universe
2 min |
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BBC History Magazine
A very ordinary king
HEATHER JONES is impressed by a new biography that reveals insights about the wartime monarch’s impressive political achievements, complex personal life and family failings
2 min |
February 2022
All About Space
THE BIG BANG THEORY
It’s our best model of how the universe works, but where did it come from?
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All About Space
MATT ONDLER: 'WE WILL SEE IDEAS AND PRODUCTS WE CAN'T IMAGINE TODAY'
Axiom Space’s chief technology officer Matt Ondler on life after the International Space Station
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BBC History Magazine
A timber-framed Tardis
Incongruously sandwiched between shops and pubs in a Norfolk market town stands a Tudor building crammed with stories spanning more than two millennia of local history. PRIYA ATWAL explores Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life
2 min |
February 2022
All About Space
ERUPTION SEEN ON ALIEN STAR FOR FIRST TIME
The outburst is about ten times more powerful than anything similar seen from our Sun
3 min |
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All About Space
COMPLETE GUIDE TO EXOPLANETS
Our knowledge of worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades
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All About Space
BLACK HOLE IN MILKY WAY'S SATELLITE DEFIES EXPLANATION
Dwarf galaxy Leo I’s giant central area seems too big for such a small host
2 min |
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BBC History Magazine
Coded Language
Michael Wood praises a pioneering study of the transformation of Chinese script, and how this helped fuel the growth of the nation into one of the world's superpowers
4 min |
February 2022
BBC History Magazine
Q&A - Who was history's most notorious pirate?
A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts
3 min |
February 2022
All About Space
WHAT HAPPENS TO EARTH'S DISAPPEARING CRUST?
Scientists may have finally figured out the mystery of subduction zones
2 min |
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All About Space
THERE'S A BARRIER AROUND THE MILKY WAY'S CENTRE
Astronomers discover an enormous, bizarre feature separating the centre of the Milky Way from the cosmic ray sea
2 min |
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All About Space
MENELAUS CRATER
How to find the impact at the end of one of the longest rays on the Moon
3 min |