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From the mid-19th century, fossils were used as evidence for continental drift – but mainstream scientists didn’t buy it until the 1950s.
The raw ingredients just weren’t there. Thankfully, their predecessors were. Here on Earth, our planet practically overflows with life. After more than 4 billion years, life has spread to practically […]
The study identified superhabitable planets outside of our solar system.
The discovery pushes back humanity’s history with domestication.
A new study discovers the likelihood of extraterrestrial life in the universe.
Let’s talk about swans. All swans are birds or, more specifically, waterfowl. They are large and sport long, slender necks. They migrate south for the winter, traveling in that eye-catching […]
Scientists speculate that if life were to have spontaneously developed on Earth, the first thing there would need to be are vesicles.
Despite the recent headlines, it’s an extraordinarily unlikely proposition. Have you ever wondered, if it were possible to travel through space straight ahead as quickly as you could imagine, if […]
Ignoring a scientific truth doesn’t change it, even when the consequences are deadly. “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?” Many of us, as children, […]
Yes, the Big Bang is real, but what about what came before? If you ask anyone about the origin of some phenomenon that we’ve observed, they’ll usually default to the same […]
Two of Iceland’s largest whaling companies are keeping their boats in port this summer. One of them permanently.
The few seconds of nuclear explosion opening shots in Godzilla alone required more than 6.5 times the entire budget of the monster movie they ended up in.
Living simply now strikes many people as simply boring.
It’s one of the nation’s worst oil spills on record.
A new report from The New York Times describes a Pentagon task force’s long-standing project to collect data on unidentified aerial phenomena and a Pentagon consultant who says the U.S. has collected crashed “off-world vehicles.”
Is the “big freeze” our inevitable fate, or can dark energy save us? When we look out at the Universe today, we see sources of light practically everywhere we look. In […]
GPS holds the key, but astronomers can’t do it without help. Since 2019, the night sky — as seen by both human eyes and the telescopes we use to enhance our views of […]
The relatively quick evolution of nine unusual shark species has scientists intrigued.
Leap years will only get us through the next few thousand years before we have to fix it. With every year that passes, we assume that two separate things will both […]
The Silicon Valley titan has promised scholarships for its tech-focused certificate courses alongside $10 million in job training grants.
The Demo-2 mission represents a new era for American spaceflight.
Alexandre Dumas’ famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.
How many other disease-fighting compounds might we find in the ocean?
Let’s not kid ourselves: Coral reefs are in serious danger. But numerous ambitious projects are underway with the goal of keeping these ecosystems alive.
A tiny layer of microscopic dust is the only reason it appears red. When we look out at our planet Earth from space, we see a myriad of diverse colors. The […]
Scientists think an insect similar to the modern millipede crawled around Scotland 425 million years ago, making it the first-ever land-dweller.
India finishes last of 60 countries in environment and sustainability, as ranked by the expats who work there.
A new dinosaur species related to Tyrannosaurs found in Canada.
New research reveals a major shift in what pressures life used to face.