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So much life. So small a space.
One cubic foot is a feature in the National Geographic Magazine. David Liittschwager’s pictures capture all the creatures, big and small, that walked, crawled, squirmed, leaped, hopped, ran, burrowed,...
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Life under an Antarctic glacier
Suppose you’re standing on a glacier in Antarctica, twelve miles (19 km) from the sea, and you drill a hole in the ice to get a core sample. Down about 600 feet (180 meters), you hit a little bit of...
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This is the decade: Alien planets, alien life
Fourth in a series of posts inspired by ten topics in ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light,...
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Mars water: What’s all the fuss?
Seventh in a series of posts inspired by ten topics in ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light,...
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Ocean on Enceladus has built-in heater
Surface eruption on Enceladus, Saturn in the background….Credit : NASA/JPL About this time last year the American space agency NASA reported on new data from the Cassini mission to the planet Saturn...
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“Gray Mars” and the stuff of life
Rover Curiosity’s bore hole in Mars rock, note color change from reddish to gray Scientific knowledge requires a process of confirmation, for example, scientists have believed for decades that Mars...
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