October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... effective contingency planning arrangements. These arrangements need to be far more sophisticated than those used in readiness for natural hazards in general. We are fortunate that we will have advanced warning, from a few hours to a few years. This...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
... is reflected in two ways: methods of science were infused into an arts-based research, and the bio-mimetic nature of the project required an interdisciplinary team comprising biologists, architects, artists and experts from the field of mechatronics...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
...subtractive processes, where material is removed from larger, semi-finished products. 3D printing allows us to mimic what Mother Nature does, namely manufacturing layer by layer and putting material only where it is needed Like many new manufacturing...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... ESA2C (ESA’s Exploration Sample Analogue Collection). Along with the associated curation protocols, it was started by the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, whose extraterrestrial materials team identified common rock types throughout the solar...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... world. However, no such convincing path of abiogenesis has been found. Recently it has been shown that abiogenesis is naturally expected in the universe, in the framework of science, considering only basic and random reactions to polymerise RNA. The...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
...of a common popular trope to the effect that an interest in cities on Mars is incompatible with taking good care of the natural environment on Earth. An opinion has emerged that colonising Mars means “trashing planet Earth and moving on” (a quotation...
