Could we actually terraform Mars? A new scientific roadmap lays out the blueprint—and the risks

Reading the "Mars Trilogy" by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the red planet into sharp relief. Since the 1970s, when Carl Sagan first suggested the possibility that we could make Mars more Earth-like, that process has been a staple of science fiction. But there's always been a significant amount of humanity that thinks we shouldn't. A new paper posted to the arXiv preprint server by Edwin Kite of the University of Chicago and his co-authors skirts around the ethical and moral questions of whether we should and tries to take a long, hard look at whether we can.

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Scientists Propose Radical New Way To Detect Alien Life – Without Traditional Biosignatures

A new study proposes a shift in the search for extraterrestrial life, moving away from individual biosignatures toward large-scale planetary patterns.

Terraforming Mars: Modeling engineered aerosols to warm the planet

Whenever humans arrive on Mars, they're going to find it a difficult place to exist. Mars is cold, with an average surface temperature of -55°C; temperatures can plunge to -125°C with dust storms lasting months; its atmosphere is very thin and almost all carbon dioxide; and all the water is frozen and mixed with ice made of CO2. Oh, and solar radiation will be hazardous on Mars' surface since the planet has no ozone layer to block ultraviolet radiation, especially so during solar flares. Disneyland it is not.

RTS game PERIMETER: Legate Edition gets Linux ARM64 binaries and Steam Workshop support

PERIMETER: Legate Edition is an enhanced version of the retro 2004 RTS game and the latest update expands it even further with modding and Linux ARM64.