A working microwave thruster would radically cut the cost of satellites and space stations and extend their working life, drive a plethora of suddenly affordable deep-space missions, and take astronauts to Mars in days to weeks rather than months. [dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]n 2011 the NASA engineering directorate created the Advanced propulsion team unofficially known as the
A feedback loop of creative research that is reshaping our world. [dropcap size=big]B[/dropcap]iomimicry is the new buzz word that is likely to dominate bio sciences for many decades to come. Nature in its astonishing complexity has provided human technology with a ‘how to’ template fresh from the microbiological world. Understanding how these systems work could
Sea levels 6 feet higher by the centuries end? To some it doesn’t sound as bad as it actually is. So the beaches will be a kilometer inland they might say, there’s plenty of land isn’t there? We can adapt to it, can’t we? Well there’s a problem there. Many of Island nations and low
[dropcap size=big]V[/dropcap]irtually limitless energy and a world freed from scarcity has been the dream of human kind for millennia. In the mid 20th century this hallowed dream saw a potential reality emerge when the principle of fusion which powers every star in the universe was reproduced in the hydrogen bomb. For over 60 years research
