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It’s been 60 years, to the day, since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel to space in a tiny capsule attached to an R-7 ballistic missile, a powerful rocket originally designed to carry a 3-5 megaton nuclear warhead. In this new episode marking the 60th anniversary of this historic space flight—the first of its kind—Scientific American talks to Stephen Walker, award-winning filmmaker, director and book author, about the daring launch that ch...

‘BEYOND: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet’ hits shelves in April Sputnik; Pixabay; Stephen Walker/Harper, 2021 The new book details, among other things, the many different stories that made up the Space Race between the USSR and the U.S. in different areas of the world, as well as the enormous risk Gagarin took to make the historic step for mankind. “In America, it is still the evening of April 11. Millions will be watching their youthful new...

Close Russia has now recorded its first human case of H5N8 bird flu. Technically, this is also the worlds first cases of H5N8 avian influenza.  Worlds bird flu cases (Photo : (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images) A worker disinfects chickens transported to a chicken slaughtering factory on May 4, 2006 in Xining of Qinghai Province, China. Surveillance has been stepped up in Qinghai Province following the discovery of a dead wild goose carrying the bird flu virus in Gangcha County. The Ministry ...

ArtReview ‘It really comes from a need, it’s about surviving, in a way’ Photo: Sophie Nuytten 2018 Sammy Baloji is an artist and photographer based between Brussels and Lubumbashi. His work mines the memory and history of the Democratic Republic of Congo through the use of archives that he manipulates to highlight the legacy and ongoing impact of the colonial system. He is a cofounder of the Lubumbashi Biennale, which had its sixth edition in winter 2019. His solo show Kasala: The Slaugh...

At 16, she dropped out of school to help pay the bills, but later became an electron microscope expert.