Retracing Berlin’s Wetlands

LAS x Berlin Science Week As part of this year’s Berlin Science Week, the Berlin-based art foundation Light Art Space presented an ‘in conversation’ event exploring the foundation’s commission BERL BERL, an immersive installation by Jakob Kudsk Steense shown in Halle am Berghain between 10 July and 26 September 2021. [...]

Time Machines and TV Screens

PLASMA 6 article by Ramon Hurtado   The End.       I want to tell you a story.   Once upon a time, There was a time traveler. This time traveler lived in the year 2020. One day, the time traveler traveled back to the year 2000. When the [...]

you should never give up before you start

Sailor Moon and the Relationships We Build by Azul Pinochet Barros PLASMA 6 article What kid doesn’t wish they had super powers? In fact, what adult doesn’t wish that too? The ability to control something extraordinary at your command, whether it be your super strength, the ability to fly, telekinesis, or to [...]

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 [...]

Looking for Hubble

A day at Mount Wilson Observatory PLASMA 6 article We met Jessica Rodriguez, STEM program coordinator at Mount Wilson Observatory and strong advocate for diversity and equality in STEM. Jess’s everyday job involves bringing students from across LA to visit Mount Wilson, the mountaintop where humanity discovered its place in [...]

Radioactivity

The Scientific and Cultural Legacy of Marie Curie By Matt Ventimiglia* PART 1 “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” (Character Maxwell Scott in John Ford’s 1962 film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance). Introduction A biographical encyclopedia of science entry for Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) — perhaps the most [...]

FANTASY BEFORE SCIENCE

“First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation.” Konstantin Tsiolkovsky by Diana Wehmeier (co editor Armand Guzman) PLASMA 6 article In order to better understand the grand endeavor of humankind travelling into space, we must first look to the thoughts, texts, drawings and philosophical movements, of [...]

The Naked Eye In the Night Sky

PLASMA 6 article By Jarred Donkersley Everybody loves the night sky. Rumors of eclipses, meteor showers, comets, and planetary alignments fill our imaginations with romantic notions of cosmic fate and a deep, almost spiritual connection between ourselves and the creation of the universe. And it should. Astronomy is our oldest [...]

SPACESHIP EARTH

“I’ve often heard people say: ‘I wonder what it would feel like to be on board a spaceship,’ and the answer is very simple. What does it feel like? That’s all we have ever experienced. We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth.” – R. Buckminster Fuller First [...]

Moon Tiara Action

love conquers all by Diana Wehmeier PLASMA 6 article Between classes the girls of our middle-school gathered around excitedly to exchange thoughts and reaction of the latest episode of Sailor Moon. It was the 90’s and the show had just arrived in Germany and was the hottest thing. We waited [...]

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 [...]

Bond in Motion

Bond in Motion OFFICIAL BOND VEHICLE EXHIBIT now open at Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles Bond in Motion is an exhibit presented by the Petersen Automotive Museum that celebrates and showcases the vast array of vehicles portrayed in the James Bond franchise. Cars, motorcycles, helicopters and even submersible espionage vehicles [...]