"Sun, Sun, Chief..." October 21, 2020 – Posted in: Magazine

Sun: Introductory note by Dionysis P. Simopoulos, Honorary Director of Eugenidei Planetarium for the #6 issue of How it works Solar Orbiter magazine One of the most interesting articles in this issue describes the mission of the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft with the aim of star of the day And although today we know that our Sun is nothing more than a simple and comparatively unimportant star of our Galaxy, for us it is particularly important... Continue reading

The invention of the telescope - Dionysis P. Simopoulos September 15, 2020 – Posted in: Magazine

Introductory note by Dionysis P. Simopoulos, Honorary director of Eugenidei Planetarios for the #5 issue of How it works magazine The wide variety of science and technology articles included in each issue of our magazine gives its readers the opportunity to choose the series with the who read them, depending on their interests. The same thing happens to me every time. So, as I flipped through today's issue, the article that caught my immediate interest was…

Life in the universe - Dionysis P. Simopoulos July 15, 2020 – Posted in: Magazine

Introductory note by Dionysis P. Simopoulos, Honorary director of Eugenidei Planetarios for the #3 issue of How it works magazine The issue you are holding in your hands includes dozens of interesting science and technology topics, yet I personally singled out two pages of a topic that has been of recent interest to me years in particular. I am specifically referring to the possibility of extraterrestrial life on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Of course, the research we have done so far on the other planets and satellites of our Solar System excludes…

Astranthropoi – Dionysis P. Simopoulos – Posted in: Magazine

Introductory note by Dionysis P. Simopoulos, Emeritus director of Eugenidei Planetarios for the #2 issue of How it works magazine Reading the main article of the issue you are holding in your hands, my mind almost automatically went to Carl Sagan (1934-1996) and what from time to time he had described to us about the creation of life. As this charismatic popularizer of science mentions in one of his books, the first living cell on Earth appeared about 4 billion years ago... Continue reading

"Something deeply engraved in our genetic structure may be what prompts us to find out what we are and where we came from" - Dionysis P. Simopoulos – Posted in: Magazine

Introductory note by Dionysis P. Simopoulos, Honorary director of Eugenidei Planetarium for the #1 issue of How it works magazine It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to this new science and technology magazine, hoping that you will find in it a loyal friend who will help you to better understand the world around you. Because I believe that the understanding of science and technology by the widest possible strata of our society is today not only...