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CDP releases its 2017 A-List, that reveals more companies making serious efforts to combat climate change.
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A predictive-keyboard app has just written an utterly crazy new Harry Potter chapter and the internet loves it.
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A study of moose skull sizes on a remote island shows the effects of global warming.
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A NYT article says the Defense Department been tracking mystery aircraft.
What happens to a nation that only reads headlines? They get journalists who chase clicks, rather than facts.
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Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming are all on fire, and simply driving your car can be the most dangerous thing of all. “I’d rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With […]
Science Debate asks 2018 candidates to discuss their views on 10 vital scientific policy issues.
A rare counter-example to the flood of Temperance maps, this Prohibition-era chart celebrates alcohol in its many forms
Researchers believe they have enough evidence to support the “kelp highway hypothesis.”
It’s more than the Spore Drive, it’s about the heart of science fiction. If you’ve been following Star Trek: Discovery, you knew what we were headed for going into the mid-season […]
With a 5-10 year warning, we could develop a plan to change an asteroid’s trajectory.
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Scientists feel under attack. This is how they’re fighting back.
There is no end to philosophies on living a good life, just as there is no end to those wanting to sell you a program for doing so.
If atmospheric hazes can cool the distant ice dwarf by an extra 30 degrees Celsius, maybe we can geoengineer a solution to our warming problem? When NASA’s New Horizons flew by […]
The discovery in Kenya of a 13-million-year-old fossil skull unearths the common ancestor of humans and apes.
When you have a decision to make, a behavioral psychologist suggests you ask yourself what you’d advise a friend making this choice.
Are we looking for life in all the wrong ways, like SETI with smoke signals? A little over 80 years ago, humanity first began broadcasting radio and television signals with enough […]
The world’s human population is skyrocketing, creating more competition and suffering. Yet few thinkers address a solution. Is there one?
“These facts have been presented time and again, year after year, for decades,” DiCaprio says. “Quite simply, we are knowingly doing this to ourselves.”
Lots of colorful characters went looking for the Yeti. And there have been several hoaxes.