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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?

In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was not the worst. In Atoms and Ashes, acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy tells the tale of the six nuclear disasters that shook the world: Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima.

In diesem Original Podcast lassen die Wissenschaftlerin Martina Preiner und die Wissenschaftsjournalistin Franziska Konitzer ihren wissenschaftlichen Blick auf die großen Fragen des Lebens los. Sterben gerade unüblich viele Arten aus oder gehört ein bisschen Aussterben zum Leben mit dazu? Wie kommt die Erde eigentlich zu ihrem Titel als blauer Planet? Kann denn Liebe Zufall sein? Und wenn wir schon dabei sind: Gibt es den echten Zufall überhaupt und wenn ja, wo kann ich ihn kaufen?

Physik war lange das meistgehasste Fach in der Schule, und Physiker galten nicht gerade als besonders sexy...

Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it. For most people, quantum theory is synonymous with mysterious, impenetrable science. And in fact for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly written account of this fundamental scientific revolution.

Neues aus Naturwissenschaft, Medizin und Technik. Berichte, Reportagen und Interviews aus der Welt der Wissenschaft. Ob Astronomie, Biologie, Chemie, Geologie, Ökologie, Physik oder Raumfahrt: Forschung Aktuell liefert Wissen im Kontext und Bildung mit Unterhaltungswert.

Mach dich und deine Knochen kraftvoll mit Knochenretterin Dr. Ann-Kristin Dorn. Du wünschst dir einen kraftvollen Körper und starke Knochen? Die Diplom-Ernährungswissenschaftlerin und Ernährungsberaterin Dr. Ann-Kristin Dorn gibt dir hilfreiche Tipps rund um Ernährung und Wohlbefinden. Du lernst, warum starke Knochen zu einem kraftvollen und gesunden Körper gehören und welchen enormen Einfluss deine Ernährung und dein Lebensstil dabei haben. Dr. Dorn ist kompetent und redet Klartext, denn sie weiß wovon sie spricht. Jahrelang erforschte sie die Effekte einer Fehlernährung auf die ...

In this book, Adams’ self-proclaimed favourite of his own works, the pair encounter animals in imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the lovable kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of Zaire, the rare birds of Mauritius island in the Indian Ocean and the alien-like aye-aye of Madagascar. Inimitably witty and poignant, Last Chance to See is both a celebration of our most extraordinary creatures and a warning about what we have to lose if we do not act soon.

Was wir erst heute wahrhaft begreifen: Weit mehr als Kriege und Technologien, Religionen und Ideologien beeinflussten und lenkten seit Anbeginn der Zeit die Natur und das Klima die Geschicke der Menschen.

Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics - as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies.

In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life. These professional risk takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century.

Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Like most research into probability at the time, his theorem - independently discovered a few years later by Pierre-Simon Laplace, the great French mathematician - was mainly seen as relevant to games of chance, like dice and cards. But its implications soon became clear, affecting fields as diverse as medicine, law and artificial intelligence.

Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space and it thrives amidst nuclear radiation. In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems.

Unser Alltag steckt voller kleiner Überraschungen und wunderbarer Rätsel, welche sich oft nur nebensächlich zeigen. Zu diesen Alltagsfragen forschte der Wissenschaftsjournalist und Physiker Hubert Filser. Seine Erkenntnisse vertonte er in begnadeter Erzählmanier in seinem Hörbuch "AHA! Das große Hörbuch der Alltagsfragen. Ein kurzweiliger und informativer Zeitvertreib für alle Neugierigen zwischen 15 und 105.

Wer sind wir? Woher kommen wir? Und wohin gehen wir? Martin Elias findet in seinem Buch "Der Neue Mensch" spannende Antworten auf die Frage, wie wir uns als Menschheit verändern – und welche Rolle das Erbe unserer Steinzeit bis heute spielt. Wieso fällt es uns Menschen so schwer, uns zu verändern, auch wenn wir längst wissen, dass bestimmte Verhaltensweisen sich schädlich auf uns auswirken – von Gewalt über Gier bis zur falschen Ernährung. Der Steinzeitmensch in uns ist schuld! Doch die Menschheit steht vor großen Herausforderungen.

Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th-century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: Physics has been in crisis since 1927.

Bald mit neuen Folgen!Dieser Podcast nimmt dich mit auf eine Reise durch Raum und Zeit, vorbei an faszinierenden Planeten und in ferne Galaxien. Mach's dir gemütlich, kuschel dich ein und lass dich mit Geschichten über das Weltall in den Schlaf wiegen.Jeden Dienstag eine neue Folge.„Einschlafen mit Weltall” entsteht in Kooperation mit der Stiftung Planetarium Berlin, produziert von Schønlein Media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we'll see geometry fold, we'll feel the equations draw tight around us. Eventually, we'll pass it: the remains of a star, deep and dense and falling further far. And then - the bottom. Where time and space end, and the white hole is born.

Know how to navigate, don’t worry about the destination, and stay alert. These are just a few of the strategies that contribute to both successful lion tracking and a life of fulfillment. When we join Boyd Varty and his two friends tracking lions, we are immersed in the South African bush, and, although we learn some of the skills required for actual tracking, the takeaways are the strategies that can be applied to our everyday lives.

Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science.