SPACE: NASA Releases “Treasure Map” of Mars
Water ice close to the surface is critical for Mars missions. NASA just released a map of where it can be found.
These video games can help mature gamers unwind — and increase their gray matter
Games can teach? Say it ain’t so!
Consider the axolotl: Our great hope of regeneration?
the writer Aldous HUxley, adopted the axolotl as a metaphor for mankind, its peculiar neoteny an emblem of our incompletion, our frustrated potentiality.
Mars 2020 will hunt for ‘microfossils’, signs of ancient alien life
Finding signs of life on Mars would finally settle the longstanding question: Is Earth the only planet capable of supporting life?
Why Nikola Tesla was obsessed with the Egyptian pyramids
In 1905, Tesla filed a patent in the U.S. titled “The art of transmitting electrical energy through the natural medium,”
Looking for Bigfoot
Investigating cryptocurrency might be more profitable than investigating cryptozoology
6 video games that can help older players focus and relax
Yeah, relax. Video games do anything but relax me.
A comet ‘burps’ as a satellite watches the whole thing
Comet 46P/Wirtanen has gas, and TESS was there to see it
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Water Bears
So far as we know, they can’t be used for FTL travel
Researchers find a lack of sleep makes the brain lean on its’ emotional accelerator pedal’
Want to cure your anxiety? Deep sleep.
Scientists find a new way to measure gravity
Scientists use lasers that suspend atoms in air to measure gravity.
SPACE: Are Stars Throwing Comets At Us?
We’ve now identified three intersteallar visitors…and there are billions of comets in the Oort Cloud. Could it be that most of them are from other stars?
Prove or disprove: A Nobel Prize winner’s approach to science
Do you know how the scientific method works? This Nobel Laureate does.
10 great physics courses you can take online right now, for free
If you can’t attend the Launchpad Astronomy workshop, you might try one of these courses
New theory explains the light from black holes and neutron stars
Where’s the light from black holes coming from? Gravity, scientists say.
Anatomical quirks: 10 things you didn’t know about your body
You may not know these things about yourself.
Anatomical quirks: 10 things you didn’t know about your body
Though we’ve learn a lot about ourselves in the last two centuries, it’s still clear there’s much we don’t know.
RNA in Spaaaaace… ?
The find gives fresh fuel to the idea that the essential building blocks of life on Earth were forged in space, before crash-landing on our young planet billions of years ago
Was Same Sex Behavior Hardwired Into Animals Since the Beginning?
Is same-sex sex an evolutionary development, or has it always been there?
‘One among millions’: DNA is not the only genetic molecule
New research suggests that there could be millions of DNA-like structures supporting life.
Insects on Mars? Ohio scientist claims NASA images show life on Red Planet.
I think they live next to the Face on Mars, but, your mileage may vary. (We’re desperate to find evidence of life there, but that’s no excuse for “woo-woo”)
Scientists create precursor to life in thermal vent experiment
Experiment supports the idea that precursors of life formed around hydrothermal vents
How to spot a conman: Tim Harford discusses his new podcast.
Not strictly genre, but good advice nonetheless
SPACE: Could “Water Bear” DNA Help Us Survive on Mars?
If we co-opt Tardigrade DNA, will we be able to travel faster than light?
The world now has an Ebola vaccine, in historic EU approval
This is an important breakthrough in World Health
Understanding how ancient electrons began life on earth
“Our goal,” says Poudel, “is to take early evolving enzymes and see how they could evolve into something more complex that we know exists today. That will help us determine how we could have evolved here on Earth, and what is possible on other planets.”

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