January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... pathogen destruction, soon caught the eye of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. We are in a new age of discovery driven by genomics and the leveraging of novel biology JPL’s Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group (BPPG) and...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
.... As an artefact, the MoonArk is built to endure the rigours of space travel, persist in stasis on the Moon for future discovery, and to portray a decodable narrative to future humans about humanity today. These sentiments are conjectural but the...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... published over 190 articles in many journals including Nature, Cell, Human Gene Therapy and Nature Drug Discovery and more recently, papers in astronomical journals where astronomy forms a passionate part of his life. He is a member of Sherwood...
27 April 2016
Dwarf planet MakeMake found to have a moon
...who led the image analysis for the observations. "The discovery of this moon has given us an opportunity to study... to gravitationally hold onto a bright, icy crust. "This new discovery [of MK 2] opens a new chapter in comparative planetology in the...
31 August 2016
Record-breaking galaxy cluster discovered
... Array (IRAM NOEMA), and ESO's Very Large Telescope. Speaking about the importance of this record-breaking discovery, study co-author Alexis Finoguenov of the University of Helsinki in Finland said, “We think we're going to learn a lot about the...
24 October 2016
New research questions the rate at which the Universe is expanding
... as robust as previously thought, and that the data is more consistent with a constant rate of expansion instead. 'The discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe led to the widespread acceptance of the idea that the universe is dominated...
