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Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space

Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space

Shannon Bohle has experience with NASA, is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in the UK,  is a lifetime member of the Cambridge University Astronomical Society, and has held  Professional memberships in the AAAS, the British Society for the History of Science, The National Space Society, The Planetary Society, and The Mars Society. She is  a registered consultant for the Science and Entertainment Exchange run by the National Academy of Sciences.  Read more

Tear Down These Walls

Tear Down These Walls

Buddhini Samarasinghe is a molecular biologist with experience in cancer research. She completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow, UK and then recently completed a postdoctoral position at the University of Hawaii. She is the co-creator of the science communication website Know the Cosmos. She is also a passionate science communicator, engaging the public with current research in the life sciences. Where possible, she uses original research papers and describes the science minus the jargon! She is also involved in science outreach through broadcasts on YouTube and other social media sites.  Read more

Can we raise woolly mammoths from their Pleistocene graves?

Can we raise woolly mammoths from their Pleistocene graves?

Sharon Levy is a freelance science writer who specializes in making natural resource and conservation issues accessible for a broad audience. She is the author of Once and Future Giants, a book that introduces the idea that Ice Age megafauna extinctions hold important lessons for modern conservation. She lives in Humboldt County, California.  Read more

Nature’s man – remembering Sir John Maddox in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Nature’s man – remembering Sir John Maddox in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Dr Lawrence Goldman is Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography—based at Oxford University, UK—and fellow and tutor in history at St Peter’s College, Oxford, where he teaches modern British and American history.  Read more

Turing : The Irruption of Materialism into thought

Turing : The Irruption of Materialism into thought

Paul Cockshott is a computer scientist and political economist working at the University of Glasgow. His most recent books are Computation and its Limits (with Mackenzie and Michaelson) and Arguments for Socialism (with Zachariah). His research includes programming languages and parallelism, hypercomputing and computability, image processing, and experimental computers. This article originally appeared on the OUP blog.  Read more