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Put on your life support suits and set the dial to “extreme conditions” . . . the Secret Science Club is heading for the Red Planet via Antarctica. Recent unmanned missions have revolutionized our thinking about Mars. The Red Planet is no longer known as just a dry dusty desert—but the repository for 2 to 3 million cubic kilometers of ice. Surprisingly, it turns out Mars may have a lot in common with the environment at Earth’s South Pole. Mars expert James Head recently spent his “holidays” in Antarctica, studying the bone-chilling landscape for clues that might help explain the mysterious Martian terrain. Dr. Head asks: Could frigid water below the surface of Mars contain evidence of life—like the microscopic extremophiles surviving such conditions in Antarctica? What’s the latest news from recent Mars missions such as the Mars Express and Phoenix? Will Earthlings send a manned mission to the Red Planet? Professor of Geological Sciences in the Planetary Geosciences Group at Br...

For those of you who missed seeing it performed live at Plutopalooza (before astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tour de force talk), listen here and check out the lyrics below. “Secret Science Club” by the Dead River Company I’ve got a secret for you It’s the kind of secret that will split your mind in two Take my hand, I’ll show you wonders The sharpest minds speak clearly Where there’s lightning there is thunder. [Chorus] Hold on to your hats, kids (at the Secret Science Club) Shocking information (at the Secret Science Club) Gonna blow your mind out (at the Secret Science Club) Indulge your science addiction Because truth is stranger than fiction You’ve got a light, I’ll make it brighter You got me feelin’ like a particle in the Large Hadron Collider! Come on girls, I’m no pretender We’re just a ragtag bunch of pencil pushers slash the Universe’s defenders [Chorus] Hold on to your hats, kids (at the Secret Science Club) Shocking information (at the Secret Science Club) Gonna blow...

photo by David Gamble COUNTDOWN TO RE-LAUNCH . . . Hold on to your wigs and keys, science scenesters! Union Hall and the Secret Science Club have been overwhelmed by audience demand---so it is now official: The Secret Science Club is moving from Union Hall to Brooklyn’s big new Bell House ! PLUS, the Secret Science Club is debuting its first-ever "theme song," written and performed by the Dead River Company . Check it out LIVE before the Neil deGrasse Tyson lecture. Special Event! Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson blasts off from the Bell House with a lecture on the "Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet," $3 cover The icy little world known as Pluto is billions of miles from Earth. Yet, when the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to the status of dwarf planet in 2006, the reaction was out of this world. Defiant T-shirt slogans, and pity-filled songs all raged against Pluto’s sad fate. Hell hath no fury like a planet (and its fans) scorned. ...