Searching for ET Before He Leaves Home
Gaithersburg, MD — Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is right, we may be able to find extraterrestrial life even before it leaves its home planet — by looking for left- (or right-) handed light. Read more
Searching for Martian Life Forms
Features of early Martian environment and presence of water drive search for life forms Read more
How to Deflect Asteroids and Save Earth
Raleigh, NC — You may want to thank David French in advance… Because, in the event that a comet or asteroid comes hurtling toward Earth, he may be the guy responsible for saving the entire planet. Read more
Mars Isn’t Dead After All
Discovery of methane reveals Mars is not a dead planet. Read more
Violations in Space-time Relativity
BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Physicists at Indiana University (IU) have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein’s theory of relativity known as “Lorentz invariance.” If confirmed, the abnormality would disprove the basic tenet that the laws of physics remain the same for any two objects traveling at a constant speed or rotated relative to one another. Read more



