As Paul March-Russell indicates in his 16th August article for The Conversation
there are times when current politics and science fiction seem to overlap.
Friday, 17 August 2018
Monday, 30 July 2018
Parker Solar Probe: cool-headed science and technology
NASA have recently published an easy to understand article by Susannah Darling
(with accompanying video material)
providing a detailed explanation as to why the Parker Solar Probe
will be able to cope with heat and extreme temperatures.
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Seeds for weeds in microgravity
A promising experiment involving the humble weed "thale cress" (Arabidopsis thaliana)
is presently being conducted in NASA's advanced plant habitat
on the International Space Station.
[For background information on the scientific value of thale cress
there is an old article from The INDEPENDENT
that remains quite topical and stimulatingly informative.
Monday, 2 July 2018
Bright flash and loud sonic boom
Purdue University News Service has provided a short, useful note
on a meteoroid that exploded
over the city of Lipetsk in western Russia in June.
Sunday, 1 July 2018
Hayabusa2 has reached its destination
Japan’s Hayabusa2 space explorer is presently
at about 20 kilometres from asteroid Ryugu
(some 280 million kilometres away from Earth)
scanning the surface for suitable touchdown places.
Saturday, 16 June 2018
"Spacish, Spacian or Spacese"
Agreeing on a common language
allowing individuals to communicate efficiently
with their fellow human beings
in the alien territories of outer space
remains one of the great hurdles to cross
for future astro- and cosmonauts.
Sunday, 13 May 2018
Let us grow lettuce and cabbage in space
It's not that easy being green
in a space traveller's canteen.
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