August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
...ía, J.I. González-Gordillo, X. Irigoien, B. Úbeda, S. Hernández-León, et al. “Plastic de- bris in the open ocean”. Proc Nat Acad Sci. 2014; 111(28): 10239-10244. 6 A. Cózar A, M. Sanz-Martín, E. Martí, J.I. González-Gordillo, B. Ubeda, J. A. Gálvez...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... sextillion ton spaceship that once a year revolves around a thermonuclear energy system called the Sun Noted sci-fi writer David Brin (both a Hugo and Nebula Award Winner) is also intrigued by science and technologies that...
February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
...something close to it - at these colonies, allowing children to grow and develop normally, and adults to maintain their health. Sci-fi movies often solve the problem with ‘graviton generators’ or some other trope not available to us. Soviet scientist...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
... within the Scottish space sector, helping SMEs to develop space capability. Royal Observatory Edinburgh. At the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus in Cheshire businesses are capitalising on STFC’s purpose-built additive manufacturing facility to progress...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... advent 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...
17 November 2014
Where is rossetta
This interactive 3D tool shows where the European Space Agency's comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft is on any given day – from launch in 2004 to the end of its nominal mission in 2015. http://sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/
