US government shutdown threatens lasting space science impact
95% of NASA employees are unable to work, many fearing long-term consequences. Richard A Lovett reports.
Changing the dynamics of getting older
In this issue: Manufacturing in space: factories of the future – Brian Cox on activism – A brief history of spacetime – ‘Osteo-biographies‘ of the dead at Stonehenge – Alex the Astronaut meets Alex, an Astronaut
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How many photons in the universe? Go on, have a guess
Calculations reveal enormous number, but with surprisingly dim effect. Andrew Masterson reports.
Mathematicians zero in on the birth of Hypatia
Probability theory deployed to recalculate the birth date of antiquity’s most famous female scholar. Gabriella Bernardi reports.
Science history: The ex-slave who transformed the American South
George Washington Carver became a pioneering agricultural scientist – working, literally, for peanuts. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Blood pressure, vampire bats and drug traffickers
Research on a bat with a scary image is interrupted by the arrival of genuinely scary humans. Andrew Masterson reports.
