Photons, spacecraft, atomic clocks and Einstein
According to Professor Marek Ziebart, who gave last Thursday’s Lunch Hour Lecture, ‘Photons, spacecraft, atomic clocks and Einstein – fundamental physics in the space environment’, if it wasn’t for...
View ArticleWhere are they? Are we alone? And when will we know?
“Dan? Dan? Dan? Dan? DAN? DAN? DAN? …” – Alan Partridge The search for extra-terrestrial life isn’t exactly a success story. But our incessant desire to find some drives us to look. Wednesday night,...
View ArticleTo boldly go: pushing the limits of human exploration
Human exploration is big news. Felix Baumgartner recently made headlines around the world after becoming the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound. It seems we are fascinated by people...
View ArticleNEOShield – the program the dinosaurs wish they’d had
Written by Joanne Leonard, a current PhD student at Imperial College London. Joanne is a science communication intern at the European Planetary Science Congress which is taking place at UCL. In...
View ArticleScientists, MPs, and NASA directors flock to Parliament to discuss planetary...
Written by Katrine Iversen, a current student at UCL and a European Planetary Science Congress science communication intern. It’s packed in Parliamentary Committee Room 11 as the first Policy Meeting...
View ArticleThe future of Europe’s missions in space: small steps or giant leaps?
Serge Plattard, an international space policy expert recently appointed as honorary professor at UCL, gave a whirlwind tour of the politics of space in his inaugural lecture on 22 January. Covering...
View ArticleOn supernovae and serendipity
Fresh from his discovery in January of Supernova 2014J while at UCL’s University of London Observatory, Dr Steve Fossey spoke about ‘Supernovae and serendipity’ at a Physics Colloquium on 12 March....
View ArticleAstronaut touches down in Swiss Cottage
Charlie Bolden was born in the deep south of the US, during the days of segregation and institutionalised racism. Despite this inauspicious start in life, he went on to a high-flying military career,...
View ArticleLunch Hour Lecture: On supernovae and serendipity
Like a white dwarf, autumn 2014’s first Lunch Hour Lecture was dense, full of energy and tightly packed (but in this case, time and not space, I might add). Psyched for my first Lunch Hour Lecture, I...
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