Astrobiology

Curiosity seeks evidence of microbes on Mars

2 Sep 2012

At long last the big question may be answered: Is there life on Mars?

In one of the most daring space missions ever undertaken, Nasa landed its one-tonne rover, Curiosity, on Mars last...

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Alien life under the microscope

2 Sep 2012

Neil Armstrong did not find them on the moon and the Mars probes have yet to meet them, but thousands of humans are still convinced there are aliens out there, somewhere.

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HK alien hunter says search can succeed within 20 years

29 Aug 2012

A Hong Kong academic who has just been given a senior position in a global body that hunts for aliens in space says be believes the search will bear fruit within 20 years.

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An alien view of our humble place in space

16 Aug 2011

Fifteen years ago, when scientists postulated that a Martian meteorite named Allan Hills might contain evidence of microscopic fossils of bacteria, the news was received with a mixture of...

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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

11 Jul 2010

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by Nick Lane
W.W. Norton HK$136

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Looking for life beats cooking up derivatives

8 Mar 2009

Amid the global economic downturn, a launch into space should inspire more people to look up at the stars. The US space agency Nasa has sent the Kepler space telescope on a mission to look for...

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Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

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Star closes astronomy seminar with a bang

Most of the stars discussed at this week's international astrophysics symposium at the University of Hong Kong are millions of years old, but one of them is just 86 years young, and a product of...

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Urban Jungle

This week: The search for 'weird' life

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COSMIC CAFE

JAMIE OLIVER eat your heart out. Here's a recipe of cosmic proportions - a formula for cooking up your own planet:

Ingredients: a quantity of dry, rocky material, a dash of organic...

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reaching for the stars

He is famed in Hong Kong for helping design its contribution to space discovery - tools for the Mir space station and European Mars missions. Ng Tze-chuen recalls in our new weekly series the...

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We're (probably) not alone, says Shaw Prize winner

Planet-hunting scientist has high hopes of alien life

Alien spacecraft and intergalactic life forms may have evaded detection by 200 professional telescopes scanning the universe...

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Unkind cut

An anonymous reader identified only as The Movie Fan Club of Hong Kong has insisted I take TVB to task for last Tuesday's unfortunate curtailment of live coverage of the Oscars ceremony.

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