Thirty-six years ago, Gary Brinson cracked open Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” a bestseller in which the renowned physicist sought to explain the mysteries of the universe in layman’s terms. “We wanted to do something here that gives scientists the complete freedom to take risks, to come up with ideas and applications that they otherwise might feel frustrated …
Could humans have contaminated Mars with life? NASA/JPL-Caltech Nasa's most recent rover to Mars, Perseverance – along with its pint-sized helicopter – could have carried some microbial hitchhikers along for the ride Humanity has sent around 30 spacecraft and landers to the Red Planet since the space age began. Clean rooms might serve as an evolutionary selection process for the …
