BBC_Science_Focus_-_08.2019

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WHAT’S LIGHTING UP OUR ANTENNA THIS MONTH

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1. Shhhhh
   This major new exhibit
   at the Science Museum
   explores just how GCHQ,
   the UK’s intelligence
   and cyber agency, has
   kept its secrets for the
   last 100 years.
   Top Secret: From Ciphers
   To C yber S ecu r it y
   Opens 10 July
   sciencemuseum.org.uk
   3. Just a bit of fun
   The Festival of the
   Spoken Nerd clan return
   with friends in this show
   of comedy, live
   experiments and
   miscellaneous experts.
   An Evening Of
   Unnecessary Detail
   26-27 July,
   Bloomsburyeatre
   fotsn.com
   4. Soak in the Sun
   If you can’t get enough
   sunshine this summer,
   head to the Science and
   Industry Museum,
   who’ve set up an indoor
   beach, a solar storm
   walkthrough and an
   Antarctic sunrise
   screening.
   e Sun, from 20 July
   bit.ly/sci_ind_mus
   5. Moon monkeys
   Brian Cox and Robin Ince
   take over the Kennedy
   Space Center for this
   episode ofThe Infinite
   Monkey Cage, dedicated
   to the anniversary of
   the first human to walk
   on the Moon.
   e Infinite Monkey
   Cage,BBC Radio 4,
   bit.ly/monkey_cages


2. Prom night
   The Royal Albert Hall
   will be filled with the
   sound of space this
   summer, or at least
   melodies wrien by
   composers who have
   tried to evoke the
   grandeur of the cosmos.
   Not to be missed.
   BBC Proms
   21 July, BBC Four


3. Dark maers
   This exhibition of
   events at the London
   Science Gallery draws
   on physics, philosophy
   and art to grapple with
   this most intangible
   stuin the Universe,
   dark maer.
   Dark Matter,
   6 June – 26 August
   bit.ly/london_sci_gall
   WELLCOME TRUST, GET T Y IMAGES X3, NASA

The amount of milk held in the boles of the

Elvie breast pump. The pump automatically

pauses when the bole is full.p94

Did you know that

90 PER CENT OF OR DNA

is similar to domestic shorthair cats? Yeah,

we’re not special. p90

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