chemistry

Have We Been Wrong About the Origins of Life?

Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

An alternative idea; that life arose deep in the ocean within warm, rocky structures called hydrothermal vents.

Ocean sediment sample holds iron believed to be from a supernova

Posted in Science on 10th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

Sediment layers may contain a type of iron that came from space millions of years ago, iron-60, which prior research has shown is spewed into space when supergiant stars explode.

Are we looking for Martian life in all the wrong places?

Posted in Science on 9th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

Organic compounds that may have existed in/on rocks located on the surface of Mars would have been degraded by radiation from the Sun.

The Mars curiosity rover is starting to make its own decisions

Posted in Hardware on 23rd Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller

The Mars Curiosity Rover can now autonomously decide which rocks to zap with its onboard laser.

The Water on Mars May Not Be Drinkable

Posted in Science on 9th Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller

If the water is coming from underground, it must be held in very deep aquifers, which would make the water far too salty to desalinate.