scientists. regularcience club our hangout, our main layer is in brooklyn but at secret science club north we are back your tonight in manhattan as part of our fifth miniseries here at symphony space. so we really like to thank all the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy landau, joanna thompson, rebecca whites, james and zack and wiki for helping us to expand our universe and wehe hope yours al. [applause] bighand for them. a very big thank you to the bar. the bars to the back into the left. they have concocted our cocktail to your or however you say it, it s called thehe atlantis. it s a fabulous blue glowing drink. it s thing for the space shuttle which our speaker was a crew member and it s very tasty. we highly recommend it. to expand your universe further. also thanks to c-span who is coming us here tonight. want to give a shout out to dinner if you like to find more about the secret science club and upcoming events here in brooklyn or anywhere in t
welcome to all of our regulars, for anyone who is a first timer the secret science club is at event series and we bring sciences of all disciplines out of their labs and onto the public stages. here they can be part of the cultural life of new york city and people like you and me can come and be informed, energized and be engaged by scientific ideas and discovery and interact directly with some of the scientist. secret science club, our regular hang out our main layers in brooklyn but secret science club north, we are back here tonight in manhattan as a part of our fifth miniseries at sympathy space. we would really like to thank all of the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy led down johanna thompson rebecca white mary mead, james lazio, and zach ricci for help us expand our showing. began for them. [applause] very big special thank you to the bar, we have the bar actually to the back and left if you ve not visited yet. they have concocted our cocktail do
this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. hello, i m claire bowes. thanks forjoining me here at the science museum in london for this edition of witness history, bringing you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode we look back at five incredible stories from space. coming up, we ll hear from the first afghan cosmonaut in space, whose mission nearly ended in tragedy. plus the women aquanauts who spent two weeks living underwater in the atlantic ocean. the handshake in space which became a symbol of peace between russia and america during the cold war, and laika, the dog who was sent into space. but first, in 1990, scientists developed a telescope which would become a household name and would eventually reveal parts of the universe that had never been seen before. nasa scientist katherine sullivan helped launch the hubble telescope into s
therapies we really have to understand those mechanisms very clearly and hopefully that won t be too many years away. t clearly and hopefully that won t be too many years away. clearly and hopefully that won t be too many years away. i suppose one ofthe too many years away. i suppose one of the things too many years away. i suppose one of the things the too many years away. i suppose one of the things the government - too many years away. i suppose one of the things the government is - of the things the government is looking at is allowing the brain to heal itself before coming the case of sportsmen and women, before going back and participating. just how important is it to allow the brain in general to heal? that is not my area of expertise, but what happens during the player because my career, but it is common sense that the more injury you do to the brain, the more concussions you have, the more likely you are to have, the more likely you are to have problems later in
shakespeare s hamlet and caravaggio s david and goliath. the purpose of the project, said the prince, was to conserve the united kingdom s natural heritage, to protect ancient woodlands and to plant many thousands of new trees in celebration of the queen s 70 years on the throne. is it the weather to enjoy the countryside this bank on a day weekend? it isa it is a pretty mixed bag. many of us will have been able to enjoyed this weekend. yesterday, it was northern parts of the uk that had the wettest weather. today, that rain has moved southwards, so it is a nice afternoon to get out and about across parts of scotland, patchy cloud and sunny spells. brightening up cloud and sunny spells. brightening up for northern ireland. some rain in the south of england, and parts of south west wales to take us towards the end of the afternoon. temperatures i2 towards the end of the afternoon. temperatures 12 for plum and cardiff, may be 16 or 17 in the highlands of scotland. the rain will