450円 A la conquête des étoiles avec Andreas Tziolas et le projet Icarus ! Icarus Interstellar est une organisation internationale qui se consacre au développement de vaisseaux interstellaires et aux innovations techniques permettant le voyage au-delà du système solaire. La recherche, conduite par des ...

450円 « Vivre et mourir à bord d’un vaisseau monde ». Tel est le point de départ de l’étude de Cameron Smith Cameron Smith est anthropologue et professeur à l’université de Portland, USA. Transformations culturelles, évolutions génétiques, bouleversements des moeurs… Pour lui, le voyage interstellaire ...

450円 Aux allures de science-fiction, des faits scientifiques pourtant bien réels Dans le film Interstellar, un équipage quitte la Terre et traverse un « trou de ver ». Ce passage secret menant vers l’extrémité de l’Univers n’est pas juste une fantasmagorie de scénariste ! Le Dr Eric W. Davis, directeu...

450円 L’homme est-il psychologiquement capable d’endurer le confinement d’un voyage sur Mars ? Un an et demi enfermé dans un grand bunker coupé de la lumière du jour, au service de la recherche scientifique et sans aucun contact possible avec l’extérieur ; voilà en quelques mots l’expérience vécue par ...

450円 L’adaptation et la curiosité sont les principaux moteurs de l’évolution de l’humanité Florence Porcel fait partie des premières personnes à avoir appris le lancement du projet Mars One. Elle, qui n’ignore rien des controverses, des réserves des scientifiques ou des incertitudes techniques entoura...

1,126円 Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of planetary systems, stars, galaxies, interstellar gas, and the cosmos as a whole. In this Very Short Introduction, the leading astrophysicist James Binn...

6,076円 Written by one of the astronomers who 'lived the dream' of working there this book is a restrospectively expanded diary featuring the 'birth and long life' of what was a truely innovative telescope. Based on input received from people involved in its planning, building, operation, and many scient...

5,300円 In 1954 the U.S. Air Force launched an ambitious program known as WS-117L to develop the world’s first reconnaissance satellite. The goal was to take photographic images from space and relay them back to Earth via radio. Because of technical issues and bureaucratic resistance, however, WS-117L wa...

11,135円 This book aims to provide a detailed introduction to the state-of-the-art covariant density functional theory, which follows the Lorentz invariance from the very beginning and is able to describe nuclear many-body quantum systems microscopically and self-consistently. Covariant density functional...

3,581円 In volume three, students will look over Albert Einstein's shoulder as he and his colleagues develop a new kind of physics. It leads in two directions: to knowledge of the vast universe and its future (insights build on Einstein's theories of relativity), and to an understanding of the astonishin...

777円 From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly m...

2,647円 Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death -- but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been discovered and studied. During the past two centuries, the quest for knowledge about asteroids has inv...