Imagine the following experiment. Remove all visible life from planet Earth.
Articles from September 2021
Folds in the fabric of time
In her autobiography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty writes: “The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily — perhaps not possibly — chronological.”
Just show us the life
It has been nearly a year since the headlines screamed “Life on Mars!”
Living happily in the giga-universe
What’s a billion?
Will God cooperate in prayer study?
Can prayer heal? That question has been getting increased attention within the medical community, perhaps because of the general rise of interest in alternative therapies.
Borne on a sea of vital dust
“Vital dust.” That’s what Nobel Prize-winning biologist Christian de Duve titles his book on the origin and evolution of life.
If Hale-Bopp had come a bit earlier
In June 1995, Sky & Telescope magazine published an article by Mark Gingrich that posed the question: When are we likely to get the next great comet?
Antiwords for antimatter
“Perhaps we are here only for saying: House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate…,” says the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
The Sox take on some real stiffs
Dan Duquette, long-time Red Sox general manager, rises to IBM’s challenge to match his team against the latest in personal robots.
It’s love vs. knowledge
The other day on a nature walk with students, I used my penknife to open a gall — one of those woody growths on plants that are caused by insects. At the center of the gall was a tiny larva.