The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to ...

A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive ...

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Patchen Barss is a Toronto-based science journalist and author. He has contributed to Scientific American, the BBC and Nautilus, among others. His latest book is The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose ...