October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
...the mechanisms of oxygenation of the terrestrial atmosphere and their consequences on the biosphere and biogeochemical cycles in general. Pierre Pouzet is an associate professor in the LabISEN laboratory at ISEN, Carquefou, France. As a member of the...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
...early on, researchers thought mice might not experience oestrous cycles in space, but it turns out in longer experiments...are happening: maybe there is some stage in the reproductive cycle that is irreparably damaged by the space environment, or maybe ...
16 March 2016
Fog looms large on Titan
... that Titan’s surface is obscured from view at visible wavelengths. Titan is also thought to undergo Methane cycling, the same hydrological-cycling processes that we see on Earth, but with methane instead. This is corroborated by past studies that...
15 May 2017
Electron rocket gets ready for first flight test
...does the rocket benefit from an entirely new propulsion cycle that utilises an oxygen/kerosene pump fed engine, it... hours and it is the first rocket engine to use such a unique cycle. If the up and coming test flight is successful, a further two will...
31 July 2017
Complex chemistry on Titan may form membranes
..., including ethane (C2H6). It also has an equivalent hydrological cycle, but instead of water raining down to create lakes and rivers... in Titan’s atmosphere. Eventually, the Moon’s methane cycle will mean that the vinyl cyanide condenses and is ...
08 April 2019
Rain on the Sun links long-standing solar mysteries
... coronal rain. Rain on the Sun is nothing at all like rain on Earth. While it might follow a cycle similar to that of our hydrological cycle, instead of H2O droplets falling from the sky after condensing into clouds, coronal rain...
