Astrobiology

An Octopus Garden on 61 Virginis

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.18.2009 | Living


Jeff Schweitzer

Humanity's greatest problem is hubris derived from religious arrogance in believing that mankind was made in god's image. People from virtually all cultures have been taught that humans are special.

Vatican Joins Search For Alien Life

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology


VATICAN CITY — E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe...

How Extremophiles Might Help Us Save the World

Levi Novey | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green


Levi Novey

Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an over-sized effect on our human world.