It’s been an exciting 12 months for astronomy enthusiasts – Jeff Bezos actually took Captain Kirk to outer space! But in the past we’ve jettisoned a lot of parts of our spacecraft, so how much junk is there out there? And is it a problem?

Prof. Moriba Jah of the University of Texas and Privateer is tracking the issue and discusses how it’s become difficult and why it matters.

See his image of all the space junk at astria.tacc.utexas.edu/AstriaGraph/

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We’ve all heard about the Great Resignation and in this episode of the Near Futurist, Vodafone’s chief HR officer Leanne Wood tells Guy Clapperton there is culture as well as technology in play.

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We’ve all heard about the Great Resignation and in this episode of the Near Futurist, Vodafone’s chief HR officer Leanne Wood tells Guy Clapperton there is culture as well as technology in play.

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Graphene used to be a theoretical thing but nobody was sure they could extract it – now it has the potential to change the way we make and keep clothes, engineer flights and even build houses. Neil Ricketts, chief executive officer of graphene specialist Versarien, talks to Guy Clapperton.

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A lot of people advocate getting back to nature as the way to preserve the Earth but they may be wrong. Geo-engineering, in which we intervene artificially, may be more sustainable. Near Futurist Guy Clapperton asks visiting associate professor at Columbia Business School, climate economist, academic, and author Gernot Wagner and assistant professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, Holly Jean Buck, for their perspectives.

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As the Cop26 conference convenes in Glasgow we are aware we’ll have to make changes and flying remains a major carbon polluter. This may be about to change, however, and in this Dividing Lines debate, sponsored by Diffusion PR, Guy Clapperton speaks to Tom Grundy of Hybrid Air Vehicles and Cristina Garcia-Duffy of the Aerospace Technology Institute about alternative technologies for freight, military and carrying people from A to B.

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