Life, Unbounded

The dearth of recent posts is about to come to an end. Life, Unbounded now has a new home at Scientific American's crispy fresh...

There's been a lot of interesting stuff going on recently, many items worthy of more detailed posts that will come in the future. The di...

Busy week, the week that was. Catch me on NPR's All Things Considered offering up some thoughts on the current SETI situation . Also my ...

A year ago it started to become clear that a significant number of exoplanetary systems harbored retrograde worlds. These planets are seen o...

Detecting and characterizing exoplanets remains an extremely challenging occupation. A very good example of this has been the recent detect...

The announcement that the primary instrument in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ), the Allen Array , is going offline fo...

The Earth is still forming. Every year our planet accumulates another 40 million kilograms of material, mostly in the form of microscopic in...