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Life drawing could improve your body image

Body concious? Life drawing could help

... somebody else naked, make you feel better about your own body? Viren - Well I think it's about embodiment.  So a ... they might provide a safe space in which to explore your own feelings about your own body in relation to other people, or just in relation to ...

FameLab International Semi-Final 2014

FameLab: Astrobiology

... you to that? is there nothing interesting enough in your own field? Patrick - Well, there's plenty interesting. The ... but much like us, they have trouble getting out of their own neighbourhood. We only got to the moon pretty recently, ... Maybe everybody else has trouble just getting off their own planet as well. But then again, our civilisation is ...

Tapeworm

The parasitic lifestyle

... hosts rent-free. Almost every organism on earth has it's own particular parasite, in fact, it's estimated that up to ... the sweeter deal, or does this lifestyle come with it's own dangers and pitfalls? And how did parasitism first ...

Atmosphere of Mars taken from low orbit

The hunt for microbial Martians

... about life on another planet, you think about life on our own planet, it's all based on DNA and this kind of thing, and ... to tell if you'd find Martian life. Something that had its own independent genesis on Mars, or maybe found terrestrial ... or perhaps more recently with one of, you know, our own dirty probes, perhaps we're going to find your own dirty ...

"The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula.

How did life begin?

... that molecule doesn't seem to be able to function on it's own. We need other things like a lipid membrane to isolate ... In conditions as exists here on Earth because we know our own solar system? If you go to Titan, for example, one of ...

Plumes of water ice are ejected kilometres above the surface of Saturn's tiny satellite Enceladus

Could Saturn's Enceladus harbour life?

... to power their metabolism as they do on the floor of our own ocean. Graihagh - That would be a pretty exciting ...

Figure 1: An artist's view of a planet around a red dwarf star

Looking for life light years away

... which to be honest it took me about a year to get my own head around. But fundamentally we can focus the light ...

Intestinal (gut) microbes (bacteria)

Endosymbiosis: the dinner that changed the world

... How do we know that cells didn’t just build their own mitochondria? Why do we think there was this external ...

Stanley Miller's experimental set up

Getting Life Started on Earth

... certainly took place some place in the solar system.  My own thinking is that in the early solar nebula, you made ...