PLASMA 6 _ LIFE IS AS YOU ARE

ANOTHER UNIVERSE RIGHT HERE / Earth issue PLASMA 6 At PLASMA we always wonder: if extraterrestrials ever paid us a visit, what would we want to show them? We’d like to make a good impression, right? PLASMA 6 turns its gaze towards the pale blue dot. This issue’s Earth-centric focus [...]

Desert X ALULA

Desert X ALULA is the first site-responsive exhibition of its kind in Saudi Arabia. PLASMA 6 article An exploration of desert culture, the exhibition is a cross-cultural dialogue between artists from Saudi Arabia and its surrounding region and artists from previous iterations of Desert X in California, taking its cues [...]

STAR BEATS

TEASER full article in PLASMA 6 Jim Fuller is a professor of theoretical astrophysics as CalTech. Jim studies the physics of ‘vibrating fluid spheres’ and is currently applying this knowledge to studying plasma movements in stars. Internal gravity waves in stars cause constant vibrations, which can be detected through brightness [...]

Christiaan, Titan, and Huygens

 A History of Life Exploration TEASER full article in PLASMA 6  PART ONE Climate disruption, racial violence, the COVID-19 pandemic. Our planet is going through turbulent times. As we face these challenges it is easy to forget that we are just one world in a vast universe of possibilities. But [...]

another universe right here

TEASER full article in PLASMA 6  “The World Ocean is as close as you can get to outer space without leaving Earth. It’s an entirely different universe, nothing like the life we have on land. And while people dream about alien life forms from other planets, there is another universe [...]

INVISIBLE PSEUDO-LIVES PART 2

A VIRAL RETROSPECTIVE PART 2 Were these mysterious infectious agents exclusive to plants? No! Around the same time that TMV was being investigated, Friedrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch (two of Koch’s former students) were working hard to get at the root cause of Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), an illness that affects [...]

OMG! Greenland’s levels rising

PLASMA 6 teaser article interview Judit Agui  Dr Josh Willis is an oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is currently studying sea level rise and measuring ocean temperatures to assess the speed of sea levels rising. The PLASMA team met Josh at NASA’s JPL to chat about his work, [...]

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Get the latest release before anyone else, receive a merch package once a year, while supporting our current research and community outreach. NEW: PLASMA MEMBERSHIP All  new PLASMA Members identified on the membership account receive the following benefits for a period of 12 months: free copy of the annual published [...]

INVISIBLE PSEUDO-LIVES

A VIRAL RETROSPECTIVE PART 1 As humans, we rely a lot on what we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. It is through these senses that our responses are triggered into action. It’s not real unless you can sense it. We see a lion prowling around, we run. Did you [...]