Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
That Enceladus is one of the most spectacular moons in the Solar System is already known – for many reasons, including pure aesthetic ones. The frozen moon with its ice plumes and crater-ridden surface is a familiar pretty view, especially…
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… I mean, it’s not like there’s no H2O anywhere in the Solar System apart from our planet. We know for a fact that a few gas giants’ satellites store substantial quantities of it – think of Europa, for example….
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I have recently read many articles about where life in the universe is likely to be found and what are the preconditions for it. This is a complex subject stretching over many disciplines, astrobiology first, and it is not an accident organisations like…
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In what seems more the plot of a SF novel than a scientific discovery, a new strand of DNA has recently been engineered in a lab (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7500/full/nature13314.html). The headlines have defined it “alien DNA”, technically a misnomer for what the…
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