This is my last posting for the next few days. I will be taking my office apart so that we can move to our new apartment downtown next Tuesday. I will be unplugged and disconnected except by tablet. Expect me to be back in the saddle before the end of next week probably in time to pro

It occurred to me today as I was reading about researchers being able to reliably predict snowstorms on Mars, that what we humans are doing here on Earth could be perfect for terraforming our red neighbour. Although Mars’ atmosphere is largely CO2, 95.3% in fact, it is so tenuou

It’s the Ides of March and unless you are unaware of the auspiciousness of this Caesarian date, it is also the day for me to post weekly headlines that I want to share with you, my readers. This week I have picked a few stories about developments in and from space:   Curios

It seems that a whole bunch of entrepreneurs and independently wealthy individuals have the Moon and Mars in mind as places to go. One of them is Dennis Tito (seen below), the first space tourist who paid the Russians tens of millions of U.S. dollars to get to MIR, the former Russian

Welcome to 2013 and our first headlines posting of the year. This week’s stories include: Mars Rover Approaches Ninth Anniversary on the Planet and is Still Ticking Study Correlates Climate Change with Increased Episodes of Volcanism Smartphone Application Gives Voice to Those W

At today’s American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, California, NASA scientists announced they had found evidence of organic matter in samples analyzed on Curiosity, the Martian rover currently exploring Gale Crater. This included chlorine, sulfur and water from scoo

This week’s five stories look at: Deploying 3D Printers in the Military Rapid Prototyping; A New Device To Replace Man’s Best Friend When Hunting Bombs; Poo to Power Microsoft’s Latest Data Center; Mars No Worse Than Living in Low-Earth Orbit and Guess What, There

There is something that Curiosity, the Martian rover, discovered in the last week that is creating a stir, but the NASA team is keeping things under wraps before officially going public. John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for the Martian science mission at Caltech in Pasadena

Three stories about methane have caught my eye this week. The first is an off the planet story about the mystery of methane on Mars. The other two are about methane right here on Earth. Well not exactly on the Earth, but on the seafloor. I hope you find all to be of interest. Curiosit

A few days ago the weather report from Gale Crater measured air temperatures in the afternoon at 6 Celsius (43 Fahrenheit). What is even more surprising is Gale Crater is still in the winter season on Mars. And the 6 degrees measured on October 1 was not an anomaly. Temperatures at Ga