March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... to consumers The Moon Boot can also be considered as one of the first examples of ‘democratic’ design: it is on the feet of movie stars and queens, but also of all of us, thanks to a simple construction and relatively low price. This is an example...
26 January 2016
Scientists reveal a new way to test the origins of the Universe
...is akin to showing an audience many still pictures from a movie stacked on top of each other, but they lack proper..., we can turn the stacks of stills into a coherent movie and directly reveal the evolutionary history of the primordial universe," ...
04 October 2021
Russian film crew to head to the ISS, 5 October
... heading to the International Space Station 5 October on board a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, for a 12 day stay to film segments for a movie. Making his fourth flight into space, veteran Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a former Commander of the ISS...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... of Earth’s atmosphere close to the horizon, LSST will still be remarkably sensitive. The LSST survey will open a movie-like window on objects that change brightness, or move, on timescales ranging from 10 seconds to 10 years. The survey will...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... introduce even the tiniest risk, especially untested mission-critical flight control software. Thanks to popular sci-fi movies like Gravity and Interstellar, we tend to associate space with the latest and greatest technology. This is sometimes...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... only a few. These improvements are seldom appreciated by the general public, which imagines SETI as it is portrayed in the movies. In the Hollywood version, a lone researcher with headphones strains to hear anything vaguely odd. That depiction was...
