March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... is, how can biotechnology support and benefit future space missions? To highlight that the culture is a living thing, the team named their co-culture ‘Ginny’ after the old Nordic mythology concept of space ‘Ginnungagap’ (the bottomless abyss...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
..., aminoglycosides, colistin and chloramphenicol (Tables 1 and 2). However, this minor change was sufficient to move the cultures under study from the category of sensitive to moderately sensitive and moderately sensitive to the resistant category...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... space social science, argues that a space society may favour evolutionary adaptation. As he says, you could have a culture that will endure the “painful transition” required to “allow natural selection to tailor individuals to their new environments...
04 February 2018
In the Shadow of the Moon: the science, magic and mystery of solar eclipses
... the Egypt-Libya border. Having been trained as a scientist, he admits he didn’t “think much about how different cultures might interpret the cosmos” until he took a group of students to measure the celestial orientation of pyramids in Mexico. He and...
15 June 2020
Cosmos The Art and Science of the Universe
... based on sound science and accurate art and cultural history”, which further erodes the notional boundaries. This...has been more prevalent”, although the authors allude to works in other cultures too. It’s not within the remit of this book - which ...
23 September 2025
Our Moon: A Human History
... often the case for multidisciplinary texts such as this. Perhaps the increase in the number of books on ‘lunar culture’ reflects a recognition of the importance of our near neighbour; alternatively, it may be a substitute for real lunar action, like...
