Mar 03 2010
Next Mars Probe Gets Carbon-Sniffing Tool
A new tool for the next Mars rover will allow it to definitively detect organic matter, avoiding controversy that has plagued results from the Viking lander.
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Mar 02 2010
Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy?
The good news: the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news: we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Diego, California's ...
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Feb 28 2010
Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy?
The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Diego, California's ...
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Feb 24 2010
Saturn Moon Could Be Hospitable to Life, Images Show
The Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface of Enceladus.
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Feb 23 2010
Wake Up and Smell the Science, Hollywood!
The cast of The Core, looking baffled by bad science. Neutrinos? You're going to kill the Earth using... neutrinos?! That was the thought echoing through my brain during the November 2009 screening of Roland Emmerich's disaster orgy, 2012. However, I ...
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Feb 23 2010
Can Life Exist in Alternate Universes?
Just by reading at that title you might have disregarded this article as pure fantasy. And to be honest, I had to read the MIT article twice before I took it seriously. Although it's pure speculation, there's something appealing about ...
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Feb 18 2010
Brits Release UFO Docs
Today, the British Ministry of Defence and the British National Archives released 24 files containing more than 6,000 pages of UFO-related information to the public. The material covers reports of sightings between 1994–2000 and includes eyewitness accounts and sketches... like ...
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Feb 18 2010
Brits Release UFO Docs
Today, the British Ministry of Defence and the British National Archives released 24 files containing more than 6,000 pages of UFO-related information to the public. The material covers reports of sightings between 1994–2000 and includes eyewitness accounts and sketches... like ...
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Feb 11 2010
Structureless Space Telescope Could Look For Life Around Other Stars
A big aspiration for astronomers is to identify life on planets orbiting other stars. Thanks to NASA's Kepler mission we will know about the statistical abundance of Earthlike worlds in our galaxy in just a few years. But confirming that ...
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Feb 10 2010
Directed Panspermia: Moral Obligation or Bio-Pollution?
The Huygens probe as it descended through Titan's atmosphere in 2004. Could a similar delivery method seed life on other worlds? (NASA) The speculative mechanism of panspermia could explain how life formed on Earth and how it might exist elsewhere ...
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