February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
.... Najla Ben Miloud is the head of the microbiology and molecular biology laboratory at the National Center for Nuclear Science & Technologies in Tunisia, where she is leading the research on irradiated microorganisms and their molecular and proteomic...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... than was previously thought. This is one of the things that sensors on GPS satellites, originally designed to detect nuclear explosions, have told us over the past 10 years. An inventory of potentially hazardous asteroids has been created by the...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... in several industries such as healthcare, wind energy, nuclear fusion, and power grid management, while they also feature... the spacecraft’s power sources, such as solar arrays or nuclear thermal reactors, and distributing it to all of the spacecraft...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... irradiated mice. These extraordinary findings suggest that one day it may be possible to protect workers from radiation in nuclear facilities, astronauts from the effects of cosmic radiation on long voyages or possibly help human colonies grow crops...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... with global effects – such as asteroid impacts, supervolcano eruptions and ice ages; the ever-present threat of nuclear weapons, extremism and other political issues; and the overbearing spectre of climate change. I suggest that the...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... part of an attempt to create an artificial ionosphere above the Earth, to improve military communications. The enormous Starfish Prime nuclear explosion over Hawaii (July 1962), so bright that people could read the newspaper outside at night by its...
