This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom is commuting the death sentences of 548 people, clearing the California death row for the first time since the state conducted hangings in the late 19th century. It is a monumental move in the history of capital punishment in America: […]
Life
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Men (and Women) are from Mars … Maybe
Suppose, just suppose, we found life on Mars: microscopic critters happily wiggling and metabolizing under the polar ice, or swimming around in an underground pool of water on the warm flanks of Olympus Mons. What would we find when we examined them close up? In particular, how would they reproduce? Would they be like life […]