When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, doctors recorded him at several centimetres above his pre-flight height, and his spine had become so unaccustomed to gravity that the recovery team carried him to a chair rather than risk the compression of letting him walk.June 5, 2026
When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic radio static, he kept picking up a faint hiss that peaked every 23 hours and 56 minutes, and he eventually realized he had become the first human to hear the center of the Milky Way.June 5, 2026
In 1945, Ruth Bourne was one of the young Wrens operating more than 100 Bombe machines at Eastcote, phoning in good stops to Bletchley Park without knowing that Hut 6 codebreakers sometimes cheered on the other end of the line Saving Tips May 26, 2026 In 1945, Ruth Bourne was still a teenage Wren at Eastcote, working in a high-walled Bombe outstation where more than…
