The first voyager to another star may be a worm or a tardigrade
Life in the fast lane
SPACE is cold. So, when launching dogs for early space missions, Soviet rocket scientists chose strays like Laika that had survived on the streets during Moscow’s freezing winter. Today, in contrast, some researchers working on an ambitious effort to dispatch craft to Alpha Centauri, the nearest solar system to Earth’s, see the chill of space not as a hindrance to sending life from one such system to another, but rather as a way to do just that.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Life in the fast lane”
Science & technology November 4th 2017
- The first visitor from another solar system has just been spotted
- A new chamber has been detected in the Great Pyramid of Giza
- The first voyager to another star may be a worm or a tardigrade
- Mammoth society seems to have been like that of modern elephants
- The latest unmanned drone is a version of an existing manned one
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