Saturn’s moon Phoebe, as seen from the Cassini space probe.

“The discovery of millions of ancient, ultratiny microbes 3,000 metres deep in a Greenland glacier suggests that similar hardy species may live in ice elsewhere in the solar system, researchers say.” Cool. Cold, even.

Japan’s Nippon Airship Corporation takes delivery of abrand-new Zeppelin, direct descendant of the famous Zeppelins of the ’30s. (And no relation to the even more famous Led Zeppelin of the ’70s.)

Whew! Seems we can quit worrying about the “grey goo” fear of nanotechnology. Instead, we should focus on the possibility of devastating weapons and an unstable arms race. That’s a relief!

NOAA scientists have captured the eruption of a deep-sea volcano on tape. Cool! Um, I mean, “Hot!”

This is both a test of my new photoblogging capability and a chance to show off my lovely family; my wife Margaret Anne and my darlin’ daughter Alice, who turns three on Sunday. 

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This is both a test of my new photoblogging capability and a chance to show off my lovely family; my wife Margaret Anne and my darlin’ daughter Alice, who turns three on Sunday. 

The “greatest unsolved problem in mathematics” may not be unsolved any longer; Purdue University mathematician Louis De Branges says he’s solved it. You can read his 23-page paper here, assuming you have the mathematical knowledge to understand it. I, alas, don’t!

A moment of silence, please, for Albert Fia, father of Canadian rocketry, who developed the still-used Black Brant research rockets in the early 1960s.

Having just read Simon Winchester’s book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, this story about erupting Indonesian volcanoes caught my eye. Personally, I like living in an extremely geologically stable part of the world!

…on Mars. At least, there was once!