07 September 2018
ANA/JAXA plan to revolutionise space with real-world Avatars
...the film of the same name might be a thing of science fiction, but a collaboration between ANA HOLDINGS and the Japan Aerospace... Exploration Agency (JAXA) are bringing the idea into science fact as they intend to use real-world Avatars to ...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
... populated solely by robots sounds like a story from a science fiction novel, but, as far as we know it, that’s...centre here on our planet. This means that any free-roaming science laboratories (rovers) are limited to travelling only a few dozen metres...
18 January 2021
New study looks at how to harness energy from a black hole
... to support the needs of an advanced civilisation. Mining energy from black holes may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it is in fact one of Einstein’s more fanciful-sounding predictions from his theory of General Relativity. Over the...
02 April 2025
Bold ideas and big questions in our Spring 2025 issue
... sparking debate thanks to its bold cover image: a pregnant astronaut drifting in microgravity. Far from a work of science fiction, the cover is a symbolic invitation to engage with one of the issue’s central topics – the scientific and ethical...
01 August 2019
Apollo’s Muse; the Moon in the age of photography
...an image of an Atlas launch. In between are early sketches of the Moon made through telescopes, film stills and science-fictional guesses at its surface characteristics, blurred TV images from 1969 and equally blurred artistic renderings. Readers may...
01 October 2019
Life on Mars: what to know before we go
... existing life on Mars. After the typical sections on science fiction and Schiaparelli’s ‘canals’, which seem de rigeur for ...any Mars book, the author gets down to the science of “Chlorophyll, Lichens and Algae”, Mars meteorites and methane....
