Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict.

If I had to choose the most sensible plan for settling the American West that was foolishly discarded by politicians with the power to make it so, I’d go with John Wesley Powell’s scheme to arrange ...

“But it’s something that fell off the map.” In the last few years ... Dell Cameron The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It If future Mars colonizers want to survive ...

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One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

Terraforming exoplanets is a recurring theme in science fiction, especially regarding Mars. In many futuristic visions, it’s the first step toward galactic colonization. Kim Stanley Robinson’s ...

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Martian soil contains perchlorates, harmful to humans. There have been numerous theories on how human beings might terraform Mars and render the Red Planet habitable. Some scientists have proposed ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable. Scientists have suggested we start with Antarctic desert moss ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover just made history with its first-ever mid-drive photo snapped from orbit, captured by the HiRISE ...