In 1961, two amateur Italian radio engineers recorded what many believe to be the voice of a female cosmonaut burning up on re-entry. If real, this would have been the first woman in space. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia were two highly regarded radio engineers from Italy who...
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The promise of the internet was that if we connect the world and give everyone a voice, we could move forward as one. It didn’t turn out that way. The way we consume information has changed drastically over the years. For the majority of modern history, newspapers were the arbiter...
In 1957, the United States began testing nuclear weapons underground in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada as part of Operation Plumbbob. One underground test, Pascal B, may have put the first manmade object into space. Robert R. Brownlee engineered the Pascal A underground test to...
Try Brilliant’s Daily Puzzles and get 20% off if you go to Robert Bigelow became a billionaire as the owner of Budget Suites of America hotels. But now he wants to build hotels in space. And his company Bigelow Aerospace is getting closer with their inflatable habitats. Robert...
The Earth’s magnetic north pole is on the move. In fact, it’s moving faster than we’ve ever seen, and it may indicate that a major change is on the way for the planet.