Articles from March 2021

Close-up artistic photograph of a cabbage leaf

Detail from “Cabbage Leaf,” by Edward Weston, 1931.

Before and after artist conception of a terraformed Mars

Artist's conception of a terraformed Mars • Image by Daein Ballard (CC BY-SA 3.0)

A little place near beach on Mars? Well, why not?

  • By Chet Raymo
  • In Technology
  • Posted on

    • The spir­it of adven­ture. The chal­lenge of the unknown. Sci­en­tif­ic curios­i­ty. A com­mon project to unite humankind. A high-tech alter­na­tive for sci­en­tists and engi­neers who have hith­er­to made their liv­ing pro­duc­ing the instru­ments of war. Enter­tain­ment. The inspi­ra­tion of young peo­ple. A hedge on our sur­vival in case the human race becomes extinct on Earth through self-anni­hi­la­tion or cos­mic catastrophe.

    Image of German civilians walking past open mass grave filled with corpses

    A mass grave of prisoners at Nordhausen, victims of the Nazi rocket program, 1945

    Close-up image of the faces of two women

    Photo by Hadis Safari on Unsplash

    Image of wooly aphid hanging from plant stem

    Wooly aphid • Photo by Melissa McMasters (CC BY 2.0)

    Etching of severed bodies hanging from tree

    Detail from Goya's “The Disasters of War”

    Image of page from Leonardo da Vinci's notebook

    Excerpt from the Codex Hammer (Public Domain)

    Close-up image of angry man

    Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

    Image of the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit above Earth

    The Hubble Space Telescope • STS-125/NASA

    Image of coffee mug with what looks like a smiling face in the froth

    Image by Karolina Grabowska on Pixabay