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JEFF BEZOS, who created a company that has delivered more purchases than any other in the history of the world, stands in front of a craft designed to deliver things [...]

It's dustier than the road to death, drier than Dorothy Parker's martini, colder than the devil's kiss. Like much of Mars, the butterscotch plain is inhospitable, empty, ancient, and, when [...]

Governments solar The geoengineering first is should that other for consider two ways reasons. to avoid the worst effects of climate change may not prove achievable in the world as it really is. There is little doubt that lacing the stratosphere with particles that reflect sunlight back into space would decouple Earth's surface temperature from greenhouse gas levels, allowing for cooler temperatures than otherwise would occur. [Extracted from the article]

In this article the author talks about SpaceX will be completing the initial launch wave of its Starlink satellite constellation, while the Boca Chica crew tests the most amazing interstellar craft ever designed. It mentions the conversation between Elon Musk, chief executive officer, SpaceX and Tesla Inc. with host Oliver Morton, Science Writer.

The warming of other solar bodies has been seized upon by climate sceptics; but oh how wrong they are, says Oliver Morton.

Fourth round of IPCC pins down blame for global warming.

Reports on a genetic technology discovered by Austin Burt, an evolutionary biologist at London, England-based Imperial College, which may make it possible to engineer extinctions of species of insects that carry fatal diseases, like mosquitoes which transmit malaria. Role of DNA sequences called homing endonuclease genes (HEG) in Burt's genetic technology; Mechanism through which HEG spreads in a population; Advantages of Burt's HEG technique.

Morton is author of 'Mapping Mars.' If you saw this patch of rock-studded wasteland in the Mojave Desert, a few hours from Pasadena, California, you wouldn't look twice. After a [...]

Reports on the growing acceptance of the Gaia hypothesis, which states that Earth regulates itself as if it were one huge organism. Etymology of the term; Meetings of the Gaia Society; Profile of the theory's proponent, James Lovelock; Gaia-related issues that remain unresolved.

Focuses on the Mars Society, an organization headed by Robert Zubrin and devoted to the effort of exploring planet Mars which originated at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Holding of Case for Mars conferences at the university; Positive response received ny Zubrin's book `The Case for Mars'; Mars' attraction to explorers; Strategy developed by Zubrin on how to bring people to the red planet; Funding problems.

Discusses the findings of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Mars Global Surveyor. Theory developed in the 1980s to explain the atmospheric conditions in Mars; Presence of carbonates in Mars's atmosphere; Processed theorized to have occurred in Mars to explain its atmospheric composition; Explanation or the watermarks that formed on Mars's surface.

Considers the theory that the earliest life on earth was more like complex eukaryotic cells than simple bacteria. Implications for the evolutionary pattern of bacteria; RNA as the former basis of life function; Why the RNA world switched to DNA; The theoretical RNA-based Riborgis eigensis; How an RNA-based cell would have functioned; Function of ribosomes and proteins; Intron/exon arrangement; The adaptive devolution of bacteria from eukaryotic to prokaryotic form. INSET: Look, no genome, by Rachel Nowak.