10 of the Best Fossil Sites in the World Charles June 15, 2017 Earth, Listicles 1 Life has thrived on Earth for at least 3.7 billion years, a story told by rocks from some of the best fossil sites in the world. Since the beginning of recorded history, fossils have confounded their discover... Read More...
Was Ancient Mars Like Earth? How Mars Died while Earth Lived Charles June 7, 2017 Sky Recent studies suggest that ancient Mars, like Earth today, may have had an oxygenated atmosphere and a plenitude of liquid water. 4 billion years ago, our world was a land of boiling oceans and rampant volcan... Read More...
Monthly News Roundup – May, 2017 in Science Charles May 31, 2017 News Roundup With more secrets of alien atmospheres being revealed and building a better understanding of the mechanics of how planets and orbits form, the last month has been particularly important in the world of planetol... Read More...
10 Reasons Why We Should Colonize Titan Charles May 24, 2017 Listicles, Sky 1 When it comes to colonizing outer space, Mars gets most of the attention, but there are also some very compelling reasons why we should colonize Titan. Saturn’s largest moon Titan is the only natural satellite... Read More...
How Close Are We to Interstellar Travel? Charles May 15, 2017 Sky 1 Humanity has long dreamed of one day reaching the stars, but how close are we to interstellar travel becoming a reality? It’s no secret that interstellar travel is incredibly complicated given the unimaginably... Read More...
10 Fascinating Facts about Earth’s Atmosphere Charles May 10, 2017 Earth, Listicles 2 We might take the air we breathe for granted, but the Earth’s atmosphere is a product of billions of years of finely tuned evolution. Earth’s atmosphere is unique among all the planets and moons we know, both ... Read More...
The Mysterious World of Prehistoric Antarctica Charles May 8, 2017 Earth Now little more than a vast icy desert, the Earth’s southernmost continent wasn’t always this way. In fact, prehistoric Antarctica was teaming with life. Today’s Antarctica hides a fascinating story beneath it... Read More...
10 Compelling Pieces of Evidence that Support the Gaia Hypothesis Charles May 3, 2017 Earth, Listicles There’s little doubt that life itself is a driving force in evolution, but does that mean that organisms co-evolve as the Gaia hypothesis suggests? The Gaia hypothesis suggests that all life on Earth forms pa... Read More...
Monthly News Roundup – April, 2017 in Science Charles May 1, 2017 Earth, News Roundup, Sky From the first direct observation of negative mass to the possibility that humans may have arrived in the Americas 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, the last month has revealed some fascinating rev... Read More...
Why We Will Never Meet Aliens Charles April 21, 2017 Sky 4 Scale and probability suggest that intelligent life should be common throughout the Universe, so why is it that we will never meet aliens? A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the reasons why we’re extremely clo... Read More...
