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The challenge of growing food on Mars

Posted May 9, 2013 - 6:00 am

For humans to establish permanent colonies on Mars, they'll have to grow their own food. It won't be easy.
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The Weekly Hash - May 3, 2013

Posted May 3, 2013 - 11:28 am

Tip-toeing through the tulips of topical tech tales
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How to tell if living on Mars is 'not for you'

Posted April 23, 2013 - 6:38 am

Mars One officially announced on Monday a call for applicants interested in establishing a permanent colony of Earthlings on the Red Planet.
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The splendor of Earth, courtesy of NASA

Posted April 22, 2013 - 4:47 pm

If anyone's going to have some good Earth Day stuff to check out, it's NASA.
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For tens of thousands of people, race to Mars already has begun

Posted April 16, 2013 - 9:36 am

Thousands of people already have applied to be among the first humans to travel to -- and in one case, permanently live on -- Mars.
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Computer glitch behind it, Curiosity Rover resumes its duties

Posted March 25, 2013 - 9:17 pm

It's brief break over, NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover gets back to its scientific exploration of the Red Planet.
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The Weekly Hash - March 22, 2013

Posted March 22, 2013 - 9:22 am

Searching from the top of the world to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to bring you - and make fun of - this week’s top tech stories
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The Weekly Hash - March 8, 2013

Posted March 8, 2013 - 11:11 am

Spanning the globe to joke about this week’s top tech stories, from North Korea to New Zealand with a quick stop on Mars
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What if we're inadvertently sending Earth bacteria to Mars?

Posted March 6, 2013 - 6:08 pm

For all our focus on finding life on other planets, we actually may be transporting life to Mars and elsewhere.
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Wanted: 2 human guinea pigs for premature flight to Mars

Posted February 27, 2013 - 6:06 pm

The Inspiration Mars Foundation plans to send two humans to Mars and back in 2018, but at what risk?
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Why aren't we going to this colorful nearby planet instead of Mars?

Posted February 25, 2013 - 4:12 pm

A video created from thousands of photographs of Mercury's surface taken by the Messenger spacecraft shows the planet closest to our sun in a new light.
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Timely and grim reminders of the dangers of space travel

Posted January 28, 2013 - 7:36 pm

The anniversaries of three space-related tragedies this week should give pause to even the most ardent supporters of sending humans to Mars.
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The day a software bug almost killed the Spirit rover

Posted January 24, 2013 - 12:48 pm

The Spirit rover’s Mars mission almost ended before it really got going due to a DOS-related software bug, which wasn’t caught due to a rushed development schedule
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Want to be a Mars One colonist? Here's what you need to qualify

Posted January 9, 2013 - 2:52 pm

Mars One is getting ready to accept applications for astronauts eager to colonize the Red Planet.
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RSVP required: The code that drives the Mars Curiosity rover

Posted January 8, 2013 - 12:40 pm

NASA engineers not only drive the the Curiosity rover, they also write the code used to tell it where to go and what to do each day
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I went to deep space and all I got was this lousy Alzheimer's disease

Posted January 2, 2013 - 2:33 pm

A new study concludes that galactic cosmic radiation poses a significant threat to deep-space travelers.
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UFO wars, Mayan doomsday and moon cities: A banner year for science crazy

Posted December 28, 2012 - 2:48 pm

It was a busy year in space, and also a busy year for Earth-based space lunacy. Here are some of the crazier theories on video.
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Best space videos of 2012

Posted December 26, 2012 - 5:43 pm

The year about to end was a good one for fans of space exploration. Here are some space videos from 2012.
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Rats on Mars or nuts on Earth? You decide!

Posted December 10, 2012 - 4:29 pm

A video making Internet rounds purports to show incontrovertible proof of life on Mars. Someone page David Bowie.
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The Weekly Hash - December 7, 2012

Posted December 7, 2012 - 12:16 pm

A silly review of recent tech stories, this week featuring the Gambino crime family, Yoko Ono and the pope
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Elon Musk's 80,000-person Mars colony: Daring dream or crazy talk? Tell us!

Posted November 27, 2012 - 2:59 pm

Billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to build a colony of 80,000 humans on Mars, and he wants to start pretty soon.
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The Weekly Hash - November 9, 2012

Posted November 9, 2012 - 11:09 am

Examining, deconstructing and laughing at this week’s top tech stories, today featuring Priceline, Siri and Oprah
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Obama win should keep NASA's asteroid, Mars plans on course

Posted November 7, 2012 - 4:22 pm

President Obama's reelection on Tuesday should come as a relief to NASA officials who faced an uncertain budget future under a Romney administration.
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How formation of Mars rock is similar to forgotten recipe of drunken colonials

Posted October 12, 2012 - 12:14 pm

"Applejack liquor" isn't the first thing you'd think would come to mind as part of an analysis of a rock on Mars, but there it is.
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Marissa Mayer's working delivery

Posted October 8, 2012 - 10:26 am

New Yahoo CEO welcomes newest Yahooligan; possibly during coffee break
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