April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
...body, to make predictions about how humans would be changed by living on Mars. Becoming Martian In most ways, evolution on Mars will resemble evolution on Earth - mutation and natural selection will make people better adapted to local conditions over...
October 2020
Learning from alternative universes
...this situation, slight variations in the proportions of the components of the universe can have a big impact in its evolution to the point where the fate of an alternative universe could be radically different to ours. Current theory For cosmologists...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... retention over time of a planet’s atmosphere and water. MAVEN’s quest The MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission was motivated by these questions to propose a targeted Mars scout in 2002. Under the leadership of the Principal...
October 2015
From post-humanity to fractals: is human space exploration doomed?
... the multiverse, beyond that? Correlating the idea of the unlimited diversity of life with the idea of universal evolution, it’s inevitable that the human stage of civilisation will evolve to the post-human, assuming civilisation on Earth is not...
19 May 2016
Astronomers find a group of stars dying too early
... anticipated, thus throwing into question our understanding of stellar evolution. The stars at the focus of the study are... paper describing these results. While current models of stellar evolution do not predict the premature demise of these types of...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
.... In fact, the MOM team will coordinate with the scientists behind NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission (MAVEN) mission, due to arrive in Mars orbit around the same time. Whereas MAVEN will study...
