Life on Mars? It’s Curious, Alright.
A two-year fact finding mission began for Mars Rover Curiosity on August 6, 2012. As well as the amazing photos it has sent back of a planet previously inaccessible, Curiosity has found evidence of a riverbed on the Red Planet. Excitingly, if the planet hasn’t always been as arid as it is now, it’s one step closer to possible that it has been capable of sustaining life.
The God Particle
The Higgs Boson Particle has long been a theory of physicists, but 2012 brought the discovery of evidence that this is more than just scientific conjecture. Though years of research lie ahead, the work at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is focused on getting to know this particle that is the basis for all matter, not just on Earth, but in the universe. Once the scientists and the particle are fully acquainted, we may just have the explanation for how the universe works.