"It is as if it has just been blasted off Mars. It is effectively a pristine sample of Mars."

Fri. Feb10, 1pm EST (GMT-5) - Rebroadcast of Lawrence Krauss/Richard Dawkins ASU event - Lawrence Krauss will answer questions live after the broacast

The Hubble space telescope has captured an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way.

Gingrich’s wasteful, scientifically unsound
plan to put colonists on lunar soil.

Newt Gingrich
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“It’s Part of their Culture” - Reading Nick Cohen in the light of the Jaipur affair

This article was published in New Statesman, 23rd Jan 2012, under a different title. [Also in Polish]

Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition: Richard Dawkins's Answer to the Annual Edge Question

Afterword from Lawrence Krauss' New Book
A Universe From Nothing

I suspect that there is life elsewhere in the universe, but it is probably extremely rare and isolated on far-flung islands of life, like a celestial Polynesia.

The new 'evidence' amounts to yet another 'Argument from Personal Incredulity': the Italian scientists cannot understand how it could have been faked.