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Images have always been a valuable tool in the art of propaganda.  This is nothing new; images and propaganda have gone hand in hand since the time when the daguerreotype process was invented.  What essentially differentiate the past from the present are the capabilities that the Internet provides to readers and the enormous proliferation of news. Thus, social media become filled with news tidbits and photographs that haunt Facebook walls around the world, and in so doing generate mass reactions and lasting mental imprints which for many lead to the adoption of ideologies much like “falling through a trap door”

A new NASA study, based on six years of observations, has led researchers to the belief that a vast ocean once covered Mars’ surface.  Evidence suggests that the body of water was the size of Earth’s Arctic Ocean, much larger than what researchers had previously thought, and that it covered the low-lying northern plains of Mars for millions of years.

Microsoft officially leaves behind the first browser that helped us “surf” the waters of the Internet, having announced that Internet Explorer is ready to hand the baton over to the technology company’s new browser.

Science fiction is usually perceived as fiction with scientific “flair." Of course, some “far-fetched” scenarios might conceal some doses of truth.  When Stephen Hawking talks about the end of the human race, when Elon Musk warns that we have awoken the “demon.”

The spectacular celestial phenomenon of the solar eclipse, as it occurred on March 20, 2015, with the moon blocking the sun by one-third, continues to elicit excitement and awe in man, particularly when witnessing a total eclipse.

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The new exhibition of works, entitled “Between Heaven and Earth,” by the young and already recognized astrophotographer Fanis Matsopoulos, at the Eugenides Foundation, includes images of astronomical objects, shot with telescopes, alongside night shots of landscapes and archaeological sites over which one can distinguish stellar orbits and the galactic zone.  Included are photographs of astronomical instruments found at the National Observatory of Athens.

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Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder created a special series of children’s books which, alongside the traditional Braille text, provide raised 3D shapes which children can stroke.

The problem of bullying and dealing with it through art and literature…

In an interview to Kathimerini newspaper, Jean-Pierre Changeux, the leading French neuroscientist, professor emeritus at Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute of France, speaks about accessing consciousness.

In an interview to “BHmagazino”, Dr. Costas Synolakis, professor of Natural Disasters at the Technical University of Crete and at the University of Southern California, as well as alumnus of Athens College, discusses natural disasters and how they can be handled by human instinct.

The historic telescope reopened to the public at the National Observatory of Athens in Penteli.

In its effort to highlight the role of museums in modern society, in 1977, the International Committee of Museums (ICOM) established May 18^th as International Museum Day.