Aliens Underneath

from New Scientist Ocean worlds: The search for life in the solar system’s other seas Our best chance to find alien life lies in the vast oceans inside the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter – and we don’t have to leave Earth to start looking By Joshua Sokol Valerii...

Never-Repeating Patterns

from Real Clear Science The Math Behind Never-Repeating Patterns By Priya Subramanian Penrose tiling. PrzemekMajewski, CC BY-SA Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians...

Life in a Hellish Place

from Real Clear Science  What Is the Earliest Evidence for Life on Earth? by Ross Pomeroy For the first 600 million years of Earth’s 4.54 billion-year history, our planet was a hellish place. The rampant volcanism and frequent collisions that wracked our world...