What do reindeer and reusable rockets have in common? Can foil in space solve the climate crisis? And are Mars rovers actually happy when they meet each other at work? The telescope of the June press review wanders from the Arctic Circle to questions of solar radiation on to the Red Planet.

The bitcoin boom has initiated a digital Gold Rush and has also put focus on blockchain technology. But what is blockchain actually? Prof. Gilbert Fridgen explains blockchain in this interview, since blockchain offers – apart from its potential for investing and financing – surprising opportunities for a modern society.

Die Presseschau dieses Monats gestaltet sich – wie das Wetter – sehr abwechslungsreich. Von kulinarischen Köstlichkeiten aus dem All über tierisch anmutende Roboter bis hin zu möglichen Hinweisen auf die Entstehung von Leben auf der Erde – da sollte für jeden etwas Spannendes dabei sein.

Anna-Christina Eilers is a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA. For this interview, she told us about amazing insights from her current research, her fascination with Quasars, and the possibility of using black holes to understand the universe’s evolution (a little better).

While Corona lockdowns are still in place and travel to other countries is not permitted, we can still enjoy impressions from afar. This month, the Mars rover “Perseverance” sent the first pictures from its explorations on our neighbouring planet.

The starry sky, images of the glowing blue Earth or the latest colour images taken by the Mars rover Perseverance – space first triggers visual images in many people. This is probably because astronomy is primarily a visual science, despite the fact that most data collected in modern observational astrophysics isn’t visible to our eyes.