Over the weekend of February 19th and 20th, I was privileged to attend the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. This is always one of my favorite scientific meetings, mostly because it…

I have been reading as much as I could get my hands on in the days since NASA’s press conference on February 2nd announcing that over 1200 new exoplanets (planets orbiting stars other than our sun) had been discovered by…