Prof. Stephen Hawking, who sadly passed away last month, was an example both as a person and a researcher. His work on black holes was praised and respected in the scientific community, and through his constant appearances in shows and documentaries he also became a prominent figure in pop culture of the last 50 years….
Tag: Astrobiology
The plants of Proxima Centaury
The Blue Planet, the “Pale Blue Dot”, as Carl Sagan put it. That’s our planet, Earth. But not everything is blue on the surface, there is also green, tons of it, a living green. Life may seem complicated at a first glance, but its basic requisites are, in fact, only energy and matter. And organisms have…
On elephants and bacteria 