We’re not made out of the densest elements, but we’re the densest planet nonetheless. Here’s why. Of all the planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids and more in the Solar System, only […]
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The second in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
The Category 5 hurricane was moving at speeds of about 1 mph over the Bahamas on Sunday and Monday.
Is capitalism naturally unempathetic?
The blood of horseshoe crabs is harvested on a massive scale in order to retrieve a cell critical to medical research. However, recent innovations might make this practice obsolete.
Before you judge someone’s personality based in their playlist, you may want to read the results of this study.
In 774/775, tree rings show a spike in carbon-14 unlike anything else. At last, scientists think they know why. Every once in a while, science gives us a mystery that comes […]
Scientists say it might even rain on the exoplanet, dubbed K2-18b.
The dream of an ‘Earth-like’ planet showcases our astrobiological ignorance. Over the past decade, our understanding of what planets exist around stars other than our own has exploded. The number […]
Synthetic biology is changing the way the planet works.
The planet has had life on it, in some form or another, for nearly as long as Earth has existed. If you came to our Solar System right after it formed, […]
Not everything needs a medium to travel through. If we can overcome that assumption, we don’t need the aether at all. All throughout the Universe, different types of signals propagate. Some […]
How does one supernova get so bright, so energetic, and so massive? It’s a spectacular mystery to solve. On February 22, 2016, one of humanity’s automated sky-scanning telescopes — the Pan-STARRS Survey for […]
It’s a “canary in the coalmine,” said one climate scientist.
The meaning—and range—of “habitable” goes much farther than we once thought.
Even if we don’t destroy ourselves, we always have the Universe to contend with. Wiping out all life on Earth is hard, but causing mass extinctions is easy. The 1991 eruption […]
Can sensitive coral reefs survive another human generation?
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If we restrict ourselves to looking for extraterrestrial life on Earth-like worlds, we might miss it entirely. When we think about life out there in the Universe, far beyond the […]
Satellite movie shows clouds of carbon monoxide drifting over South America.
A network of devices called MERMAIDs is taking seismographs where they’ve never been.
There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank.
The modern ocean can be a dangerous place for whales.
A comprehensive interdisciplinary paper removes any doubt that orcas don’t belong in marine parks and zoos.
We knew the Chicxulub crater was massive. We just didn’t know how widespread the damage actually was.
Beyond the oceans boiling and the death of our Sun, Earth’s ultimate fate won’t be determined until far in the distant future. It took the Universe 13.8 billion years to create […]
Love + fear = awe. And awe can inspire the best and the worst in us. From 100,000 wild tigers a century ago, we’re down to around 5,000. Oscar winner Ross Kauffman’s TIGERLAND tells the story of the lengths some will go to to protect them.
There’s a million things we haven’t done. But just you wait. The Universe as we know it began some 13.8 billion years ago with the onset of the hot Big Bang. […]
The flying rotorcraft drone is set to land on Saturn’s largest moon in 2034.
Hearing-related problems are on the rise.
The Ocean Cleanup’s System 001 is being deployed at Great Pacific Garbage Patch.