This is a DRAFT for a new blog post for my Science20 blog http://science20.com/robertinventor - sharing it here as this blog has few views, to work on it and discuss it with friends etc. This is…

This is a DRAFT for a new blog post for my Science20 blog http://science20.com/robertinventor - sharing it here as this blog has few views, to work on it and discuss it with friends etc. The news…

In case you haven't heard of it, Nibiru is a totally nuts idea. Yet it gets many people very scared. I started to get messages about it as a result of writing articles about asteroid impacts, and how…

Solar storms trigger Jupiter's intense 'Northern Lights' by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth's aurora borealis,…

I wrote this soon after ExoMars's successful launch to Mars, 2015. Hurray! In the program about the mission, before and during the launch, the presenters talked about the care they take to sterilize…

Elon Musk hopes to land a hundred colonist hopefuls at a time as soon as the early 2030s. NASA also proposes its "Road Map to Mars" which could see human "boots on Mars" in the near future. It is…

I can foresee a possible clash between those that want to send humans to Mars, and those who want to protect the planet from Earth life. Humans may go there in the near future, as soon as fifteen…

It is hard enough to sterilize the robots we send to Mars to search for life. How can we expect to do the same for humans? It's at least a major challenge. I've argued that to start with we should…

NASA hopes to go full speed ahead with its "Road to Mars" to land humans on the planet, and Elon Musk wants to build a city of a million on Mars by 2100, but it is rare for anyone in the debates to…

This is another in my now rather frequent articles to reassure people who are panicking because of news stories, saying that there is a chance we will all die in a big future cataclysm. No, this is…