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Madame Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond
Madame Mars, Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond, is a transmedia documentary tracing the long and arduous path women have taken in their efforts to explore Mars and worlds beyond. Madame Mars project vision is to inspire young women and girls to pursue careers and opportunities in the space sciences. Madame Mars is creating an interactive experience […]
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BBC Radio Wales Science Cafe – Searching for Alien Life
BBC Radio Wales Science Cafe programme: Searching for alien life – Adam Walton explores what message the world should be sending out to alien worlds. And Klara Anna Capova gives her thoughts on the problems of trying to communicate with alien life. Full BBC Description: Adam Walton explores the search for extra-terrestrial life following the recent launch of Breakthrough […]
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BBC Three Counties Radio – About Life on Other Planets
Yesterday, on Monday July 20 the News Agency (amongst many others) reported that Stephen Hawking has teamed up with a Russian billionaire to launch a new quest to discover life on other planets. The British scientist has given his backing to Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Initiatives project, which will provide $US100 million over the next decade […]
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Frontiers of Life: Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Prospections
I am very much looking forward to giving a talk at Frontiers of Life Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Prospections workshop in London tomorrow! Confirmed speakers: Gisli Pálsson (University of Iceland), Sophie Houdart (Université Paris X Nanterre), Jane Calvert (University of Edinburgh), David Dunér (Lund University), Klara Anna Capova (Durham University), Perig Pitrou (Laboratoire d’Anthroplogie Sociale/ Collège […]
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2nd Conference on History and Philosophy of Astrobiology
Aim of the meeting is to deal with the transition of non-living to living matter, how chemical processes evolve into biological ones and the onset of biological evolution as well as the tree of life. Scientists and students from humanities and natural sciences will convene to discuss these questions that engaged mankind since centuries. The […]
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Klara joined the Action!
Life-ORIGINS (TD1308) is a Trans Domain European COST Action investigating the origins and evolution of life. Life-ORIGINS is dedicated to the scientific investigation of the origins and evolution of life on Earth and habitability of other planets. The objective of Working Group 5 (WG5) History and Philosophy of Sciences is to assess, from a philosophical […]
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BBC 2 Portillo’s State Secrets
Dr. Klara Anna Capova, social anthropologist working in science & technology studies, anthropology of outerspace, and the founder of Space Cultures, will be talking about social dimension of space exploration and search for life beyond earth tonight at 6:30 pm, BBC Two, in Portillo’s State Secrets. According to the official BBC Two Portillo’s State Secrets […]
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Habitability in the Universe Conference in Porto
Just delivered a talk on Astrobiology in the Age of Social Media: The ‘science of the unknown’ and the sociocultural dimension of transformative ideas to the participants of Habitability in the Universe: From the Early Earth to Exoplanets conference in Porto, Portugal. It’s a priviledge to be here. This conference is the first Conference and […]