October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
...confirm that they were led into their professions by the cultural experiences (often science fiction) of their youth, including ... patterns occur naturally and have been used for cultural structures and rituals throughout Earth’s societies, creating...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... in space exploration, what does that tell us about us in relation to the vast space we are part of? That is where culture comes into the picture. How do we represent ourselves? How do we express these representations in science, in art, in all forms...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... is, how can biotechnology support and benefit future space missions? To highlight that the culture is a living thing, the team named their co-culture ‘Ginny’ after the old Nordic mythology concept of space ‘Ginnungagap’ (the bottomless abyss...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
..., aminoglycosides, colistin and chloramphenicol (Tables 1 and 2). However, this minor change was sufficient to move the cultures under study from the category of sensitive to moderately sensitive and moderately sensitive to the resistant category...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... space social science, argues that a space society may favour evolutionary adaptation. As he says, you could have a culture that will endure the “painful transition” required to “allow natural selection to tailor individuals to their new environments...
04 February 2018
In the Shadow of the Moon: the science, magic and mystery of solar eclipses
... the Egypt-Libya border. Having been trained as a scientist, he admits he didn’t “think much about how different cultures might interpret the cosmos” until he took a group of students to measure the celestial orientation of pyramids in Mexico. He and...
