LUCA Was Ocean-Sized

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ONCE upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a mega-organism like none seen since, it filled the planet’s oceans before splitting into three and giving birth to the ancestors of all living things on Earth today. This strange picture is emerging from efforts to pin [...]

Comic Character Balloon Floats

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I know it’s a little late for Thanksgiving-related stuff, but this is so much better than the (admittedly pretty rad) Macy’s parade.  I want to take shade under balloon-Alan Moore’s beard.  I assume it would be stormy and he would tell me to go away a lot and I would just be like Chris Farley’s [...]

New Mars Rover is Too Big

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Well, great job, NASA.  You’ve gone and done it.  You have to keep these Mars Rovers the size of remote control Radio Shack toys.  That way, when the malicious alien spore infects the thing and sends it back to earth, it’s not the size of a small Transformer.  Sure, it looks harmless now.  Throw some [...]