Despite its hellish surface, there may be parts of the atmosphere of Venus that may be habitable. A team of astronomers has developed a series of space missions to find out.
https://www.astronomy.com/science/could-the-clouds-of-venus-support-life/
Pioneering physicist and computer scientist Edward Fredkin, who died in June 2023, believed that the universe could be explained as the results of a kind of cellular automaton. This essay in Nature explored his fascinating life and legacy.
A team of NASA scientists test theories about possible Martian life and how to search for it by studying the driest part of the driest desert on Earth.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u5vc9t5ggj945ld/Mars%20on%20Earth%20--%20Wired.docx?dl=0
Feature article about spending 24 hours sealed up alone inside the Biosphere 2 test module, where the principles behind the 3-acre main structure were first tested and proved. This was in the last months of the original two-year closure experiment by a team of eight people, and so this provided a unique perspective for describing the inne
Feature article about spending 24 hours sealed up alone inside the Biosphere 2 test module, where the principles behind the 3-acre main structure were first tested and proved. This was in the last months of the original two-year closure experiment by a team of eight people, and so this provided a unique perspective for describing the inner workings of this much-watched experiment.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o1gp64cd8046uzx/LifeInAPickleJar.pdf?dl=0
This feature provided an oral history of the research on asteroid impacts on Earth, compiled from interviews with eight of the leading researchers in that field.
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