We’ve come a long way from the gramophone, but what is digital sound exactly? Record collections may still be en vogue, but both vinyl and cassette mediums represent an archaic analogue technology that has been superseded since compact discs came to the fore. Imagine the pits and grooves in ...

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From air-sea rescue to counter surveillance, night vision goggles have literally changed the way we see Night vision typically utilises two types of technology; thermal imaging (infrared) and image intensification or light enhancement, of which the latter is the most portable and therefore suitable for use in night vision goggles. Light Enhancement devices take the photons present in ambient light (typically ...

and why are they there at all? Why does Saturn have rings but other planets do not? The answer has to do with something called the Roche lobe, named after a French astronomer. It seems when a planet orbits around a star (eg our Sun) and that planet has its own orbiting objects (eg a moon), a gravitational pull ...

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