The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
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While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]
More than 200 years ago, scientists tried to figure out how bats navigate in the dark (or without eyes). This set in motion a series of events that led to the development of ultrasound as a form of psychotherapy.
Two types of leaves for two different drastic weather conditions.
Pando, which is Latin for “I spread,” is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.
Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
Researchers detect a large lake and several ponds deep under the ice of the Martian South Pole.
Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be kept at -100°F until it’s administered. Can caregivers deliver?
Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider “explaining what you know” to an actual expert in the field.
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
Archaic humans ventured into Eurasia in waves, not always successfully. They may have started their journey in North Africa or West Asia.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.
The impact might have triggered the Ice Age.
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
It’s the early 20th century, and you are the captain of a ship. A barquentine specifically—three masts and a coal-burning steam engine in her belly. She’s a sturdy and capable […]
If Arctic ice continues to melt at its projected rate, the bears will go extinct due to starvation by the end of the century according to a first-ever projected timeline.
65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it probably caused the impact itself.
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
There has been a 600% increase in European gas prices so far in 2021.
The key is finding which lifestyle suits you best: hedonic, eudaimonic, or experiential.
Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
Whenever the climate cooled, our hominin ancestors would set up shop in the Arabian Peninsula and vanish again when the planet warmed up.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.