In June 2023, four volunteers will spend a year pretending to live on the red planet inside the Mars Dune Alpha habitat.

In June 2023, four volunteers will spend a year pretending to live on the red planet inside the Mars Dune Alpha habitat.


If you engage in online commentaries with your science, this article outlines how to deal with criticism online.

Distilling complex topics into simple language can result in oversimplifications that may actually end up being lies…

It is all too easy to fill our days with meetings and other small tasks that leave only small gaps for the serious work. It is important to create time and space for hard tasks.

Rejection is a part of life, especially for scientists, so you need to learn how to deal with it!


After thirty-six straight hours of negotiations, diplomats in New York representing nearly 200 countries endorsed a treaty to protect biodiversity on the high seas.

Diversity of input into science creates innovation, but this means you need to learn how to collaborate with people you don’t like.
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