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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

UNCHARTED TERRITORIES

Patricia Detmering, Armin Keplinger & Tamiko Thiel at synthesis gallery, Berlin On view for immersiVR: September 28th, 2020 – February 20 th, 2021 ‘There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]