Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
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Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.
A new study lays out the case for the damaging effects of stress on orcas living in tanks.
‘Dorozoku’ map crowd-sources the whereabouts of noisy kids in Japan – but who’s being anti-social here, exactly?
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
We’re Earth’s first intelligent, technologically advanced civilization. But maybe not the last. For most of our planet’s history, life in some form has existed on our world. Planet Earth formed some […]
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
A 71% wet Mars would have two major land masses and one giant ‘Medimartian Sea.’
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
The corporate word-stock suffers no shortage of overworked metaphors. We drill down to find low hanging fruit, and despite lots of moving parts obscuring our window of opportunity, we mustn’t […]
Based on the atoms that they’re made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here’s why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
Pandemics have historically given way to social revolution. What will the post-COVID revolution be?
A new study finds the rocks that first formed Earth carried with them enough hydrogen for three times the water we have today.
Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
If there really is another version of you out there in a parallel universe, what can that teach us about reality?
Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
Why a 400-mile enclosure around the North Sea is not as crazy as it sounds
Victorians want to rectify 19th-century surveying error – and become South Australians.
Learn how to get the best views no matter where you are. Every year, no matter what else is occurring on Earth or in the heavens, you can rely on two […]
There are three possible ways we’ll find alien life. With all of these chances, the only question is which will come first. Given everything humanity has learned about the Universe, it […]
It contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined, and the science of our planet explains why. Although practically all of Earth’s human population lives on dry land, our surface […]
A strange weakness in the Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing and possibly splitting, shows data.
Plate tectonics and mantle plumes set the lifespan of volcanic islands like Hawaii and the Galapagos.
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.
The mission could launch as soon as the 2030s, the researchers said.
The net famously failed to work as planned last year. Now, a new version is making waves.
You actually score worse on memory tests.
Imagine Heraclitus spending an afternoon down by the river…
From exoplanets to supermassive black holes to the first stars and galaxies, Webb will show us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before.