Mars is a dry, frigid, dusty, nearly airless place. A couple of billion years ago, though, it wasn’t much different from Earth.
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Hello ET: A New Book Makes the Case for Alien Life
There’s no good evidence to date that life exists, or ever has existed, on worlds beyond the Earth — so it might seem odd that the field of science known as astrobiology is booming. Over the past decade or so, hundreds of biologists, geologists, chemists and astronomers have conducted research and attended conferences on astrobiology around the world, and NASA even has an Astrobiology Institute at its Ames Research Center in California.
Death Stalks A Continent
Imagine your life this way. You get up in the morning and breakfast with your three kids
The Day the Earth Moved
The 9.0 quake that hit Japan on March 11 was powerful enough to shift the earth on its axis and make it spin a little faster, shortening the day by 1.8 millionths of a second. It shoved the island nation one parking space to the east
The Promise And Pitfalls of Bioplastic
Regular, petroleum-based plastic doesn’t biodegrade.
Italy: The Day the Earth Shook
When the first tremors began in the parched, rock-ribbed mountains of western Sicily last week, most of the 3,000 people of Salaparuta took refuge on the slopes just below their hilltop town.
Got Yttrium?
Mark Kristoff has rare-earth minerals in his blood. His father was an executive with Molycorp, which owned and operated the biggest American rare-earth mine, near the Mojave Desert town of Mountain Pass, Calif
It’s Shadow Banks And Regional Governments That Will Take Down China
The New Conventional Wisdom: It’s Shadow Banks And Regional Governments That Will Take Down China Below is a very breif video of Omnis’s James Rickards talking about Chinese real estate, a subject of endless fascination for those of us who a) just witnessed a horrific real estate crash and b) are trying to get a […]
A Brief History of Antarctica
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Where’s Balloon Boy? Ask the Web
The mysterious metallic balloon thought to be carrying a Colorado boy had scarcely returned to Earth last week when a new website launched, its domain name asking the question much of the nation was wondering: WhereIsBalloonBoy.com.