July 2020
Inspiring the next generation into STEM
... 19 percent. Our data also show that engineering aspirations are profoundly gendered.” In a recent paper, Dr Julie Moote, Research Associate on the ASPIRES 3 project wrote: “a mere 11 percent of the UK engineering workforce are women, far behind the...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
...lunar missions including a sample return, plans for a Lunar Research Base and a number of Mars missions, to name ...for example, China jointly announced with Russia the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a project aiming to establish a long-...
20 November 2017
New £29 million AI and robotics space hub for UK
... Edinburgh, Liverpool, Salford and Warwick on the core research programme of the Hub. Professor Yang Gao, Hub ...talented team at Surrey and a proud heritage of producing leading research in space science and technology. We believe, with the support...
10 January 2018
Possible recipe for life on early Earth
...life might have evolved on Earth some four billion years ago, researchers have turned the problem on its head and looked at key... the situation on its head, chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), looked at the chemical reactions first, then...
25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
... in total isolation for 122 days. The six team members are part of the SIRIUS (Scientific International Research in Unique Terrestrial Station) missions; a series of isolation studies that are intended to subject a select group of people to the...
10 March 2021
Russia and China agree to build joint international lunar base
...Russian space agency said the agreement with China's National Space Administration (CNSA) is to develop a "complex of experimental research facilities created on the surface and/or in the orbit of the Moon, designed to carry out multidisciplinary and...
