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Why do you want to develop others’ interest in space medicine?

One subject of increasing relevance is space medicine. How do human bodies react to the pressures posed by environments beyond Earth? In an era with…

Life

Why is it important to study space biology?

Editor January 14, 2022 biology cardiovascular systems gravity health immune systems isolation medicine organs radiation the Artemis program

The space environment is a harsh one for the human body. An important part of humanity’s engagement with the cosmos is thus understanding the space…

Business

How do you help connect space startups to investors?

Editor January 7, 2022 entrepreneurialism investment investment readiness levels investors Kosmic Apple market research Northern Sky Research startups the space industry value chains

As interest in space is growing, there is a proliferation of space startups. There is also growing investor interest in the space industry. But how…

Life Machine Society

How do you classify extraterrestrial civilizations?

Editor December 17, 2021 civilization classification systems extraterrestrial civilizations first contact interstellar distances Nikolai Kardashev radio sensors SETI the Kardashev scale

In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), it is important to conceptualize how one might identify the existence of extraterrestrials. Such conceptualization informs SETI operations…

Society

Why do you write about space?

Editor December 10, 2021 blogging blogs digital tools India space education the Internet the Moon the Solar System websites writing

Space education plays an important role in affecting how humanity engages with the cosmos. There are many ways to teach people about space – through…

Life

What are you doing to advance astrobiology in India?

Editor December 3, 2021 Amity University astrobiology Astrosat biology India Kutch Ladakh Lonar Crater low Earth orbit space ecosystems

One well-established space power is India, whose space program has been active for several decades. Astrobiology, on the other hand, is an area of space…

Cosmos Worlds

Why do you study exoplanets?

Editor November 12, 2021 astronomy exoplanets habitable zones NASA planets star systems the Hubble Space Telescope the James Webb Space Telescope the Solar System The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

We live in a fascinating era in terms of astronomical knowledge. We now know with certainty that many other stars besides our own Sun have…

Society

How did you become a science and technology journalist?

Editor November 5, 2021 astronomy Astrophysics Inverse Journalism media MIT Technology Review science and technology space travel The Daily Beast Wired

Science and technology are important aspects of humanity’s engagement with space. On the one hand, engaging with space improves our understanding of the universe and…

Cosmos Frontier

Why did you decide to become a cosmologist?

Editor October 29, 2021 Astrophysics cosmology fundamental particles gravity physics Richard Feynman the Higgs Boson the standard model true vacuum vacuum decay

Cosmologists study a truly mind-bending topic: the nature of our universe. It’s a field of study that dwarfs the scopes of many other sciences. Cosmologists,…

Cosmos

How does machine learning help us understand galaxies?

Editor October 22, 2021 Artificial Intelligence astronomy doctoral studies evolution galaxies galaxy evolution Machine Learning morphology the universe The University of Nottingham

The scale of the universe is difficult to fathom. Our world is inside a star system, which is in turn inside a galaxy, which is…