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  • 8 Apr 2021
    Wallace Arthur

    Martian helicopter, Martian atmosphere, Martian life?

    Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, examines the link between the flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and the possible existence of past life on the red planet.

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  • 16 Feb 2021
    David Merritt

    Evaluating An Alternative Cosmology

    David Merritt, author of PROSE Award winning book "A Philosophical Approach to MOND: Assessing the Milgromian Research Program in Cosmology” discusses the competing theories of MOND and LCDM ‘Suppose that the dark-matter detection experiments continue to fail. How can we hope to ever decide between the two competing theories?’

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  • 23 Dec 2020
    Simon Friederich

    Are We Living in a Multiverse? Why We Might – and Why We Might Never Know

    Simon Friederich, author of Multiverse Theories: A Philosophical Perspective discusses the “multiverse” idea. What the idea entails and whether it can truly be tested.

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  • 16 Nov 2020
    Wallace Arthur

    Huge boost to the search for extraterrestrial life

    A decision has just been reached that will give an amazing boost to our capacity to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. On 12th November, member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) signed off on the proposed space telescope called ARIEL, which has thus been given the green light for construction and launch. There […]

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  • 31 Aug 2020
    Wallace Arthur

    Are we alone in the Universe?

    Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, sheds some light on one of humanity's most enduring questions.

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  • 21 Aug 2020
    Wallace Arthur

    From 42 to 4200: Life in the Universe, but not Everything?

    The rapidly-increasing number of known planets has just passed the 4200 mark, according to NASA. The upshot of this is that we may now have enough planets to detect extraterrestrial life, even if we never discovered any more planets, which is most unlikely given that there are over 5000 additional ‘candidate planets’ awaiting confirmation. Discovering […]

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  • 31 Jul 2020
    The robotic arm on NASA's InSight lander places a seismometer onto the surface of Mars.(credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech).
    Kenneth Coles

    Marsquakes may originate in a well-known fracture

    Reports of the first marsquakes – seismic events caused by crustal movement – aroused my interest. Recordings of earthquakes here on our own planet have taught us everything from the number and nature of layers in the interior to where the most active faults are located. The seismicity of the Earth contributed vital information that […]

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  • 9 Jul 2020
    Artist’s impression of Perseverance on the Martian surface.
    Wallace Arthur

    Mars: The nearest part of the biological universe?

    Author of The Biological Universe, Wallace Arthur, discusses what we can expect from the NASA Mars 2020 mission. The launch date is correct at time of publication.

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