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...

Life Re-written

from Phys.org Scientists find 3.7 billion-year-old fossil, oldest yet by Seth Borenstein In this photo provided by Laure Gauthiez, taken in July 2012, a field team examine rocks in Greenland. Scientists have found what they think is the oldest fossil on Earth, a...

The Pyramid Of Balls

from REDDIT Over the past 15 years my dad collected 1,785 bowling balls and built a giant Bowling Ball Pyramid [ click to view on REDDIT ]