In the end, one child died. More recently, in 2024, a family in the Dominican Republic was poisoned with phosphine gas after fumigation of an apartment in their building. The goal had been to ...

I was part of a team led by Professor Jane Greaves that recently reported the detection of phosphine gas from radio telescope observations of Venus. We calculated that no known chemical process ...

Does the detection of phosphine gas point to life among Venus’s clouds? Driven by climate change, this year’s wildfires in California have been the worst on record, choking San Francisco like the ...

This revelation stems from the detection of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, a gas that on Earth is associated with living organisms. Could this mean Venus, with its hellish surface conditions ...