Here is a small taster of the awesome content available in our latest issue.

Supermassive black holes – Discover how this huge phenomenon can swallow up a galaxy.

Supervolcanoes – Find out what could happen if one of these geological giants woke up.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus – Find out what’s inside the first Android smartphone to use the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

Science of fire – Learn about this bewildering yet often deadly force of nature.

Dreamliner – Learn why the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is currently one of the most efficient aircraft in the aviation industry.

Dassault Mirage– Why has this popular French fighter jet endured for so long?

Our sister magazine, Advanced Photoshop (www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk), has teamed up with iStockphoto.com to celebrate the launch of iStockphoto’s new Feast site.

Feast is a new site that will provide the creative community with a place to learn, share and engage. It will be a hub for sharing posters and icons all part of the year’s ‘Creating A Better World’ theme. There will be loads of articles, ideas and content on how creativity can be used to create a better world.

If you sign up to get Feast updates via email before 20 September 2011, you will be in with a chance of winning a host of amazing prizes from iStockphoto and Olympus.

First prize – worth £2,000
Olympus E-PL2 MAX kit, with the award-winning E-PL2 camera and standard and super-wide lenses
500 iStockphoto credits

Second prize – worth £300 each
Four runners-up will win an Olympus SZ-30MRs compact camera and 50 iStockphoto credits

Third prize – worth £25 each
100 entrants will win a leather gadget bag and some cool iStockphoto swag

Even better, if you refer a friend to sign up to Feast, you will earn more chances to win. The more friends you refer, the more chances you have to win!

Find all the details, as well as terms and conditions at http://www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk/istock

Digital Photographer magazine is giving away a fully working copy of Capture One Express 6 to EVERY reader. This powerful RAW conversion software is manufactured by Phase One and is the choice of pro photographers worldwide.

All you need to do is buy Issue 110 of Digital Photographer magazine and load up the free CD to register. You will then be emailed a specific license code that will enable you to convert the 30-day trial into a fully working copy that is yours to keep forever.

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Ear ringing is medically referred to as tinnitus. It is not a disease but rather a symptom that can be caused by a variety of factors such as exposure to loud noise, allergies or changes in blood pressure to name a few. In some people it is far more severe and may be permanent, but many people experience it like yourself – randomly and infrequently.

You will be more aware of it in a quiet environment so it may happen more often but you are not aware of it due to surrounding noise. Tinnitus is fairly common. There was an interesting study done by Heller and Bergman (1953) where 100 ‘tinnitus free’ students were placed in an anechoic chamber (a room which gives little or no reflection of sound due to special treating on the walls, floors and celings which cause them to absorb sound). It was found that 93 per cent of these students reported buzzing, pulsing and whistling sounds. So you are not alone.

Rik Sargent, Science Museum

For 69 days, 33 miners lived in dark, damp and humid conditions, pushing the known boundaries of human mental and physical strength to their limits. After the entrance to their mine collapsed, they awaited the most high-profile rescue operation of modern times, but how were they were freed? Read on below to see just how the miners escaped.

Trapped
The section of the mine in which the miners were trapped was 720 metres underground.

Boreholes
To find the miners, rescuers had to drill a number of experimental boreholes.

Air
Natural ventilation within the mine gave the trapped men enough oxygen to survive.

Rations
Sustenance was scarce. Each man had only two teaspoons of tuna, a sip of milk and half a biscuit every 48 hours until they were found.

Note
Amazingly, after 17 days of searching, rescuers found a note attached to one of the borehole probes written by the miners:

“All 33 of us are well inside the shelter”

With the men located, escape shafts could begin to be drilled.