May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
... by my disability. My bed, on the other hand, will be against the wall of the rotating cylinder, where the artificial gravity created by the centrifugal force prevents insomnia and weakening of muscles and bones. Presenting at Asgardia’s first Space...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
..., modern scientists had doubts that plants would be able to successfully grow and reproduce in a zero gravity because their dependence on gravity was considered too great. Early experiments also suggested it was unlikely that plants would thrive...
27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
...times more detailed than was previously possible. The instrument is GRAVITY and it was born from the desire to observe very...cosmos in finer detail than ever before. Unlike ALMA, GRAVITY uses visible light (not Millimetre/Submillimetre radiation) to ...
19 July 2016
Gravity waves on Venus create 'fountain of Aphrodite'
.... "Despite the name, these have nothing to do with gravitational waves, which are ripples in space-time – instead, gravity waves are an atmospheric phenomenon we often see in mountainous parts of Earth's surface. Crudely speaking, they form when...
February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... through shielded tunnels, possibly bored from the walls of a crater to allow sufficient radiation shielding. By living in ‘normal’ gravity with sufficient shielding and only being exposed to the external environment for specific work and research...
October 2025
Investigating the hidden effects of zero gravity on astronaut vision
..., medical priorities focused on more immediate concerns, such as preventing pathological changes to the musculoskeletal system in zero gravity and protecting astronauts from space radiation. Only after these primary challenges were addressed did...
