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Artificial Gravity

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 05:00:00 GMT

Human beings have evolved in an environment of constant gravity. Here we explore the challenge of artificial gravity in SF

Our Ears on the Sky

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 05:00:00 GMT

Looking at our ears on the sky - the giant radio telescopes that extend our studies of the Universe beyond the range of optical light.

An Icon of Futures Past

Sun, 02 May 2021 06:00:00 GMT

Looking at Jodrell Bank's representation in science fiction and SF paratexts.

Dan Dare at Herstmonceux

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex became the new home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory research organisation in a gradual transition that spanned the late 1940s and 1950s. As this article discusses, Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, and its host comic The Eagle provides a fascinating insight into the observatory at this moment of transition, as well as introducing children to the key features of a working observatory.