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Student Captures Cosmic Radiation on Film by Sending Negative to Space

24 May 2026 at 11:00

A small black satellite with “AUB” on its fin orbits above Earth’s blue surface; beside it, a vibrant abstract image features swirling light and colors, evoking space or energy.

A photography student sent a 5x4 color negative into space on April 19 and exposed it to cosmic radiation, capturing a beautiful, abstract portrait of space unlike anything done before.

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'We need Operation Eastern Sentry': NATO's eastern flank 'facing Russian threat every week'

29 May 2026 at 18:40
Gavin Lee is pleased to welcome prominent Romanian journalist, TV anchor and military analyst Radu Tudor. As tensions continue to rise along NATO's eastern frontier, the latest drone incident in Romania has once again exposed the growing security dilemmas facing frontline alliance states. Tudor sees a pattern of Russian aggression, the vulnerabilities of NATO's eastern flank, and the urgent need for stronger allied military capabilities in the region.

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  • Why are so many young people leaving Martinique? François PICARD
    We're joined by Renée Bertini, a journalist with ENTR's English-language team, who takes us to Martinique, one of France's overseas departments in the Caribbean. She explains the main issues faced by young people in Martinique (a lack of academic and job opportunities, as well as a complex colonial legacy) and how this situation is pushing so many of them to leave for mainland France.
     

Why are so many young people leaving Martinique?

We're joined by Renée Bertini, a journalist with ENTR's English-language team, who takes us to Martinique, one of France's overseas departments in the Caribbean. She explains the main issues faced by young people in Martinique (a lack of academic and job opportunities, as well as a complex colonial legacy) and how this situation is pushing so many of them to leave for mainland France.

'Entire system is broken': Lyhanna's death reveals 'systemic failures' in France's judicial system

François Picard is pleased to welcome Solène Podevin-Favre, President of the "Face à l'inceste" advocacy and support group and a former co-director of the Ciivise, an independent commission set up in 2021 to come up with proposals to fight sexual abuse of children. According to Podevin-Favre, the murder of 11-year-old Lyhanna is not an isolated tragedy. It is a "systemic failure" that has been repeatedly identified, documented and reported for years.

One of the Most Comprehensive Looks at Film Color Science

9 June 2026 at 21:08

Three sets of color swatches in neat grids are displayed side by side, each showing two rows of grayscale tones and several rows of various colored squares used for color calibration or comparison.

Japan-based analog photographer D.Daniel has delivered arguably the most comprehensive, efficient, and useful comparisons of color and black-and-white photographic film stocks ever.

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30 Winners From the World Food Photography Awards

2 June 2026 at 21:30

The image is split: on the left, a shepherd in silhouette guides a flock of sheep through dust; on the right, an elderly woman stitches at a table in a bright, empty dining room with food and a painting of fruit on the wall.

A tender image titled A Woman Eats in the Canteen of the Soviet-era Sanatorium, by British photographer Jo Kearney, is the Overall Winner of the World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Bimi®.

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The Challenge of Photographing Mountain Gorillas in the Mist of an Impenetrable Forest

29 May 2026 at 13:09

Split image showing a gorilla sitting on a mossy tree branch eating leaves in a misty forest (left), and a close-up of a gorilla’s face surrounded by green foliage (right).

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda needs no further explanation. It's a challenging landscape to navigate, and numerous animals inhabit it. But its most famous residents are the mountain gorillas.

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Photographer Has Been Shooting the Same Park in Portland for the Last Four Years

3 June 2026 at 13:31

A collage of four images shows a park in different seasons: snowy hills with people sledding, a sunny landscape with sunset light, a lively nighttime festival, and a rainy scene with wet paths and trees.

Rephotography is when photographers capture the same location multiple times across a stretch of time. Aaron Wessling has been visiting Mount Tabor Park in Portland since 2022.

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'What makes Gaudí and Sagrada Família so universal is precisely it being so local, so Catalan'

François Picard is pleased to welcome Antoni Vives, former Deputy Mayor of Barcelona in charge of urban planning. According to Vives, the Sagrada Família is not simply an architectural masterpiece. It is a living demonstration of how authenticity, rootedness, and transcendence can converge in a single human project. Its significance lies not only in its extraordinary design, but in its ability to connect the local with the universal, the contemporary with the eternal, and nature with all that's sacred.

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  • Nat Geo’s New Documentary, ‘Time and Water,’ Tells a Story You’re Still Writing Jeremy Gray
    National Geographic's new documentary film, "Time and Water," grapples with a challenging, profound question: How do you say goodbye to what you never thought you could lose? Through archival footage, photos, art, and science, Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa follows acclaimed Icelandic writer and poet Andri Snær Magnason as he confronts the death of his country's glaciers, the loss of his grandparents, and the kind of world he hopes future generations can experience. The story's next
     

Nat Geo’s New Documentary, ‘Time and Water,’ Tells a Story You’re Still Writing

28 May 2026 at 17:11

Three-panel image: Left, people hike up a snowy slope; center, a person stands in a glowing ice cave; right, close-up view of blue ice with deep crevices and textures.

National Geographic's new documentary film, "Time and Water," grapples with a challenging, profound question: How do you say goodbye to what you never thought you could lose? Through archival footage, photos, art, and science, Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa follows acclaimed Icelandic writer and poet Andri Snær Magnason as he confronts the death of his country's glaciers, the loss of his grandparents, and the kind of world he hopes future generations can experience. The story's next chapters are being written at this very second.

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End of FCAS 'flagship project' marks setback for Franco-German cooperation and European defence

François Picard is pleased to welcome Ulrike Franke, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. According to Franke, the project's demise was "not a surprise to anybody." While acknowledging that Dassault was often perceived as "quite difficult to deal with," she argues that the deeper problem lay in a structural design flaw that brought together industrial rivals who "never really had the incentive to properly work together."

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