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 [...]

A Dance with AI

Berlin’s interdisciplinary AI contribution The Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Interview with Dr. Diana Alina Serbanescu Team Lead of Research Group Criticality of AI-based Systems The recently founded Weizenbaum Institute investigates the impact of digitalisation across all levels of society. The Institute aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of [...]

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, [...]

PLASMA MULTIPASS

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 [...]

MARSHA & TERA

colonization of the Red Planet PLASMA 5 online article Humankind has proven to be incredibly adaptable to the most extreme and unusual living conditions imaginable. We are capable of surviving in the most hostile environments like the Atacama Desert in Chile, or the equally harsh ice sheets of North Greenland. [...]

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 [...]

I’m here for the scope!

PLASMA 5 online article Visiting BLAKE ESTES, Mount Wilson Observatory Intro & Interview: Diana Wehmeier/Estevan M. Guzman/Azul Pinochet Barros At an altitude of 5,715 feet, overlooking the city of Los Angeles, stands the Mount Wilson Observatory. Looking up from the foot of the mountain this place might not seem like [...]

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 [...]

Concrete Jungles

PLASMA 5 online article ‘No man is an island’ wrote 16th Century poet John Donne. He was right. We’re planets – each of us home to 40 trillion bacterial inhabitants.  Richard Beckett is a researcher working in bio-augmented design at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture. His vision is to create [...]

Naked eye observing

PLASMA 5 online article Interview with Daniel Lewis – The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Garden Daniel Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology, Huntington Library, San Marino, California. He is also a lecturer in environmental history at the California Institute of Technology, and [...]