August 2018
Making a cosmic impression
... to go back to ROOM issue #1 (7) 2016 and read space artist David Hardy’s article, ‘Why we need space artists’. In ‘Curiosity: The Moment of Creation’, Kara Szathmary notes that scientists are like children, examining the details of what...
September 2018
ROOM helps raise student space awareness
... of scientific knowledge, fuel considerable uncertainties, and so are regarded by many as being controversial and a source of curiosity and even outright bewilderment. One of the main features of this project is that it aims to encourage young...
November 2018
Pole star rising
... on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, has been produced by a start-up founded by Polish scientists, Creotech Instruments. The Curiosity Mars Rover is fitted with infrared detectors manufactured by Poland’s VIGO System, and the Mars Express mission...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
... reference and the origin of human beings. And space will remain the horizon of man’s conquests and curiosity, the mirror of his hopes and fears. German philosopher Edmund Husserl, who questioned Earth’s status from...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... needs and self-actualisation needs Maslow’s eight-stage-model added (6) “cognitive needs for sheer knowledge (curiosity) and for understanding (the philosophical, theological, value system-building explanation need)”; and (7) aesthetic needs related...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... a lasting impression on Darwin. Yet it was not the uniqueness of the marine iguanas that most aroused Darwin’s curiosity, but their similarity to the green iguanas in mainland South America and to the land iguanas that also...
