The prospect, no matter how remote, that a space probe launched from Earth may "contaminate" another planet with Earthly microbes, is concerning some scientists, especially once technology allowing unmanned spacecraft to travel to nearby star systems is developed. However far in the future such technologies may be, it is worth thinking about the potential problem of contaminating other solar systems with Earth life, according to a new paper by Charles ... Read full entry

Spoiler sport. Screen writers who have had their scripts rejected by the studios are increasingly selling their ideas online to the highest bidder. The reasons are twofold, one to earn some sort of recompense, and two, to let the movie-going world know what might have been. Dan is a script collector. A 20-year-old American student, he currently owns over 500 of them. So far, his collection includes all three Ghostbusters films ... Read full entry