Life on Mars (which screens at 8.30pm on Mondays on TV One) is a great TV series. It's about a about a gentleman who falls asleep and wakes up in 1973 (the year David Bowie’s Life on Mars was released).
While the concept of taking a trip back to the early seventies is pure science fiction, the idea of life on the red planet is getting closer to reality, according to NASA. That doesn't mean Martians are about to be discovered, though: NASA is talking here about humans colonising the planet. The notion of finding indigenous life on the freezing, thin-atmosphered fourth stop from the sun is still in the realm of sci-fi.
The moon isn't waterless, either.
Neanderthals may have been quite chatty.
One of the biggest arguments against evolution continues to fall apart: how the eye evolves.


















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