HuffPost Science: Mars One; Volcanic Eruptions; Curiosity's 'Tattoos'

Monday, September 3, 2012 Ambitious Mission Gets Big Boost A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week. Click the link above to learn more. Volcano Study Yields Big Surprise What's Up With Curiosity's 'Tattoos?' Curvy Glasses Shown To Have Surprising Effect On Beer Drinkers PHOTOS: Blue Moon Wows Observers Around The World Follow @HuffPostScience On Twitter! BLOG POSTS Rob Brooks: Sexual Signalling Powers the Economy It's entertaining to think that economic growth and innovation might owe just as much to showing off as it does to the earnest attempts of consumers to obtain the bare necessities of life. A. Douglas Stone: What Is a Boson? Einstein Was the First to Know What is the origin of the term "boson," and why is it worth specifying that the Higgs is not just any old supersmall particle, but a member of the particular family of fundamental physical objects grouped together as bosons? David Katz, M.D.: Our Place in Nature, and Vice Versa We have long known that bacteria living on and in our bodies outnumber our cells -- which themselves sum up to a number that exceeds any hope of real understanding -- by 20 to one. We are a rounding error in our own skin. Anna Leahy: Neil Armstrong and the Space Generation The first era of U.S. manned spaceflight ends, and we are the adults of this nation now. Armstrong and eleven other men visited the Moon, but those of us who were watching, as young as we might have been then, are the space generation. Terry Newell: Lance Armstrong and the Future of Performance Enhancement The Lance Armstrong case represents a set of questions that goes well beyond sports. What does it mean to be human? What is permissible "enhancement?"

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