Check out the Red Planet's craziest colors
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A picture from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter paints the Red Planet in shades of blue, yellow and green — but there's a method in the madness.

Resurrecting Evolution to Solve an 800-Million-Year-Old Puzzle | The Loom
This is a story of about how the parts of a puzzle locked into place 800 million years ago. The puzzle is an ion pump that you can find in any mushroom, mold, or yeast. I’ve reproduced a picture of it here. Fungus cells, like our own cells, have lots of little pouches inside of them for carrying out special kinds of chemical reactions. In order for those reactions to work, there have to be a lot ...

Right hand or left? How the brain solves a perceptual puzzle
(Medical Xpress) -- When you see a picture of a hand, how do you know whether it’s a right or left hand? This “hand laterality� problem may seem obscure, but it reveals a lot about how the brain sorts out confusing perceptions. Now, a study which will be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, challenges the ...

A Guide to the Casting Process, From First Read to Meeting the Network Execs
Casting a pilot is like putting together a puzzle. The frame or network-approved script is already in place, and it's up to the casting director to find the pieces or actors that will fit together to create the right picture.

Man vs. Everything: 'The Grey' & 'Man on a Ledge'
Writer/director Joe Carnahan's 2002 crime drama Narc earned him nodding approval from cineastes who were surprised by the flair and sneaky intelligence he brought to that movie — it was a firmly cop-genre picture, but one done with blue-collar smarts and crafty visuals. Here was a guy, a real Guy's Guy, who had something to say beneath all the bluster and machismo. Carnahan, unfortunately ...