May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... of quantum computers, the day is not far off when our world would be the stuff we see on sci-fi movies. Today our world deals with huge amounts of digital information every day and thus, it is very important...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
...-white ultramodern design of the capsule is visually stunning and looks like it came straight out of a science fiction movie. Space architecture and design already drive the private space industry Design is therefore a discipline and profession...
August 2021
Robotic systems for psychological support
... support for astronauts: audio and video communication with relatives via satellite Internet; the ability to watch movies and TV series, and listen to music; the use of virtual reality glasses; and consultation with a psychologist and...
21 June 2015
First “movie” of dancing Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has offered up yet another reminder of how little we still know about our own solar system – by revealing the strange “dance” that Pluto, the dwarf planet, does with its largest moon. What’s interesting about the ...
05 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
... with alien life are regularly made by unstable individuals (who sometimes claim sex abuse – as parodied by the movie “Independence Day”), and, as such, have become another pop culture punch line: Yet many scientists believe...
26 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... going. Hollywood, of course, will meanwhile keep us hoping that whatever we do find won’t be anything like a Ridley Scott movie (please?).
