RIVIERA BEACH — A day after he was hit by a stray bullet in the back of the head, 74-year-old E.T. Strickland was back at work Wednesday — with the slug still stuck in his skull.

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The biologist and writer Lewis Thomas once suggested that if we were going to send anything to the stars, we send Bach. It would be bragging, he admitted, but we are allowed to put our best foot forward.

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ocked under ice, the hidden oceans of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, may be tumultuous rather than placid, a new study says. Such oceanic unrest translates into a higher potential for life.

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THz is a source of radiation that emits the same kind of energy as 'Free Energy', available from the environment at room temperature.

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He's cute. He's cuddly. He has the power to make grown women weep with little more than a longing gaze. Like Jesus Christ and E.T.

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My Top Ten Science Fiction Films

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FILMS WERE SELECTED BASED ON THE 50 ELIGIBLE FILMS FOR THIS YEARS AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE LIST FOR THE TOP TEN SCIENCE FICTION FILMS. THEY ARE ALSO ONLY BASED ON FILMS I HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN. HONORABLE MENTION: STAR WARS (1977)

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An array at Hat Creek near Mt. Shasta points an ear to the cosmos. If E.T. tries to phone on any of 10 billion channels, Earth will be ready to listen.

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When E.T. phoned home, where did he call? If it was a local connection, Mars was the likeliest place. As tantalizing as the prospect of life on Mars is, the Red Planet isn't the only place where alien organisms may lurk.

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On a wooded ridge in Harvard, Mass., a specially built telescope has spent the last month scanning the skies for laser signals from alien civilizations.

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