July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... microparticles are shown as dots. The structural information is colour coded - red corresponds to FCC (face centered cubic) crystal structure, green is HCP (hexagonal close packed) structure and blue is fluid-like structure. Sometime later the...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... story, let alone the story of the entire magma, is a fascinating, yet challenging task. Until recently, two crystals sitting side by side under a microscope showing very different ‘personal’ histories was used as reasonable evidence to suggest...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
Today, many would be startled to learn, there are four United States-based companies whose business plans involve ‘space mining’ for profit. These companies include Planetary Resources Inc, Deep Space Industries, Moon Express, and Shackleton Energy ...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... solar radiation were launched into orbit from the Kopernik 500 spacecraft in 1973. Other achievements included crystallization experiments in microgravity. Three years later the Space Research Centre (CBK) was launched by the Polish Academy...
August 2019
The next us – our evolution in deep space
... and how will we cope with the physiological and psychological changes? The authors dust off their crystal ball and peer into an uncertain future. We are a terrestrial species. We have become who we are by virtue of the...
July 2020
Trailblazing STEM education
... in 1957. The grass soaked my back as I peered upward in search of that moving, beeping beacon. The sky was crystal clear, the Milky Way unpolluted by city lights. Sputnik would kick off a decade-long race to the...
