Solving Venus’ mysteries, three missions at a time - LivestreamAfter years of waiting, an armada of spacecraft are headed to Venus. In June, NASA approved not one, but two new missions named VERITAS and DAVINCI to our closest planetary neighbor and ESA quickly followed suit and approved its own mission called EnVision.Venus has been a forgotten planet for too ...
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December Science on Tap: Deep Sea MiningAstrid Leitner, a researcher from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, will inform us of the future emerging industry of mining in the deep ocean. Demands for materials to build electronics are projected to increase, and thus it is crucial that deep sea mining be carried out sustainably.
It’s not just light we receive from the Universe. We receive cosmic particles on the Earth that have travelled enormous distances at incredibly high speeds. Some of these particles carry extreme energies, millions of times higher than we can achieve using man-made particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider, here ...
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Fascinating Mushroom Spores: Rules & Exceptions, Unknowns Galore - LivestreamIn this talk we’ll explore the world of mushroom spores - where they are formed, how they get into the environment and where they want to end up, whether there are any correlations between spore colour & ornamentation and habitat & nutritional mode (fungal life style). And we’ll make detours ...
