Sep 23, 2023 00:49 am UTC| Science
Around 15 years ago, I was on a European Space Agency (Esa) committee, looking at Esas strategy for proposed forthcoming space missions. Under consideration was a mission to an asteroid. Over dinner, one of the committee...
Five golden rules for effective science communication – perspectives from a documentary maker
Sep 21, 2023 01:39 am UTC| Science
Over the past three years, people from all walks of life have learned a great deal about different branches of science. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many of us to information about virology and vaccine production....
Discovering the universe from our own backyards
Sep 20, 2023 02:01 am UTC| Science
When I was a college student, I worked at the Charlevoix Astronomical Observatory in Québec. It was a pretty decent summer job, as I got to observe celestial bodies until the dead of night, talk to astronomy...
Our planet is burning in unexpected ways - here’s how we can protect people and nature
Sep 18, 2023 06:29 am UTC| Science Nature
People have been using fire for millennia. It is a vital part of many ecosystems and cultures. Yet human activities in the current era, sometimes called the Anthropocene, are reshaping patterns of fire across the...
Jamais vu: the science behind eerie opposite of déjà vu
Sep 18, 2023 06:25 am UTC| Science
Repetition has a strange relationship with the mind. Take the experience of déjà vu, when we wrongly believe have experienced a novel situation in the past leaving you with an spooky sense of pastness. But...
Sustainable use of natural resources: lessons from Pantanal communities
Sep 18, 2023 05:54 am UTC| Science
How can we use nature in a sustainable way? That is a question I, together with colleagues from different parts of the world, have sought to answer for a decade. We are dedicated to studying issues related to the...
NASA report finds no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial
Sep 18, 2023 05:52 am UTC| Science
NASAs independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs on Sept. 14, 2023. In part to move beyond the stigma often attached to UFOs, where military pilots fear ridicule or job sanctions if they...
The fraught history of India and the Khalistan movement
Nagorno-Karabakh: longest war in post-Soviet space flares yet again as Russia distracted in Ukraine