Talking about Mars...
One of the biggest clues that there's a whisper of a chance life could yet be found on Mars is the detection of methane in its atmosphere.
Here, a NASA scientist explains the importance of finding the gas.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
