March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... of light carrying information about their progenitor and they can also be produced by other violent events in the cosmos such as the big bang. Figure 2: The main equation of Einstein’s General Relativity While the phenomena that...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
... can drive an organic reaction in environments akin to those of a hydrothermal vent on Earth, perhaps it is already underway elsewhere in the cosmos such as on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus for example; both of which are suspected...
15 June 2020
Cosmos The Art and Science of the Universe
The older one gets, the more it seems that CP Snow’s ‘two cultures’ paradigm, which postulated a division between science and the humanities, is becoming increasingly blurred – at least in the fields of space and astronomy. According to its ...
08 January 2023
Stars in Your Hand: A Guide to 3D Printing the Cosmos
Those tasked with marketing books love words like “unique”, “original” and “ground-breaking”, which are typically gross exaggerations, but the description of Stars in Your Hand as “unlike any other astronomy book” seems fair. The book not only ...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
...ambitions. The film reflects a deeper human tendency to see the cosmos as a domain of symbolic and ideological struggle. Noreen Humble expands...how pinhole photography can evoke the vastness of the cosmos in her Galaxy Series. Similarly, David Hoffos’ ...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
...at real estate in our own galaxy. Tuning-in to the cosmos Such arguments fuel the interest in SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial ...excitement of proving that there are other beings in the cosmos, the actual effort to do so has been disappointingly...
