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The iPhone and how we got here
Didcot Civic Hall Britwell Rd, Didcot, United KingdomThe iPhone and how we got here It has changed our lives. It has changed the way we interact with other people, the way we obtain information, the way we amuse ourselves and the way we work. It is on course to become the most popular invention since the wheel and the match. And this […]
Engineering challenges presented by fusion
Didcot Civic Hall Britwell Rd, Didcot, United KingdomThe design of a fusion power plant presents many engineering challenges, many of them unique and requiring unusual engineering solutions. Designing a reactor vessel that can cope with the combination of high thermal and irradiation power loads without cracking or melting requires the use materials not normally used for building engineering structures. In addition these […]
The Sun up close: solar probes to unravel its mysteries
Didcot Civic Hall Britwell Rd, Didcot, United KingdomThe Sun is a magnetically active star that displays many exciting phenomena, particularly when observed from space in the invisible wavelengths of Extreme Ultraviolet and X-rays: active regions, flares, huge mass eruptions, stealth solar wind. Soon, two new spacecraft, Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe, will be sent into unique orbits, getting closer to the […]