FFON. The Frightened Face of Nature.

  • Part 2: Promising planets, Dry worlds, and Water-bears

    Part 2: Promising planets, Dry worlds, and Water-bears

    By Dr Valerie Jeffries FLS Language of Life The  term ‘Earthlife’ acknowledges that all life we know uses the same universal coding system to read its DNA. The way it translates DNA into bodies is amazingly neat, but uses a ‘language’ that’s arisen by chance.  When  humans first made words with meanings, two tribes on opposite continents would…

  • LIFE, BUT NOT WHERE WE KNOW IT? Part 1: Life on Mars

    LIFE, BUT NOT WHERE WE KNOW IT? Part 1: Life on Mars

    By Dr Valerie Jeffries FLS. Are we alone ? We no longer believe that Planet Earth holds the only possibility of life, just as we know that our whole Solar System is extremely small in the vastness of space. We already recognise Mars, possibly Venus, and at least three moons of the giant planets Jupiter…