August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... reduced gravity conditions. The concept of humans living on Mars is shifting slowly from the realm of science fiction into technological reality Since Mars lacks a magnetic field or protective atmosphere comparable to Earth, countermeasures against...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... be unlike anything ever attempted in human history. While faster-than-light ‘warp drives’ are a popular staple of science fiction and allow protagonists to flit from star system to star system in the time it takes for a commercial break...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...Excursion Module (LEM), and of TV shows and science fiction novels that found their niche against this setting.... condemned to operate in an artificial environment. No matter what science fiction might tease you with, there is not one square kilometre ...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...out there in the cosmos has long been a staple of science fiction. It should come as no surprise then that these extra-solar... Warwick in the UK and leads the PLATO mission’s Science Management Office. His research focuses on the discovery of ...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...Sir Arthur Clarke was fond of quoting his fellow science fiction writer Larry Niven and he often cited Niven’s famous...of what might be done to address cosmic hazards. Clearly more science and investigation is needed - but we are not ostriches that ...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... by Arthur C. Clarke in a 1945 article published in Wireless World magazine, in which the then naval officer and science fiction author proposed their use to create a global communications system. Based on earlier work by a largely forgotten Slovene...
