Elon Musk took issue with recent ideas for space exploration from Jeff Bezos.
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Documentary explores astrobiology, astronauts, and the awe of it all.
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It would be the ultimate method for solving our pollution or hazardous/radioactive waste problems, but we’ll never do it. Here’s why. Imagine our planet as it was for the first 4.55 […]
Our antipathy toward the natural world is bad. But it’s not too late to change.
Templeton Prize winner Marcelo Gleiser on knowledge, the endless frontier.
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Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
New research identifies an unexpected source for some of earth’s water.
Rwanda is pioneering the regulation and use of drones – such as delivering blood
Black hole mergers are some of the most energetic events in the Universe. Could the gravitational waves they produce ever harm us? The Universe is not a static, stable place. Out […]
Only 8 worlds make the astronomical cut as planets. Here are the 10 fascinating bodies that didn’t make it. Astronomically, bodies within the Solar System must achieve three criteria in order […]
Weather isn’t climate. The President isn’t a scientist. And physics is still real. The country is freezing in an unprecedented fashion, and global warming is to blame. Sound crazy? The cold […]
The Hermeus Corporation recently received seed funding to begin building a hypersonic jet that would travel twice the speed of the now-retired Concorde.
All life as we know it relies on carbon and water. But researchers speculate this doesn’t have to be the case.
If galaxies are cities in the Universe, how unfortunate that our ‘cosmic country’ is dissolving. On the largest cosmic scales of all, planet Earth appears to be anything but special. […]
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Ocean Conservancy has collected more than 60 million butts since the ’80s.
Surrounding counties boast even higher increases.
Invented in 1902 by an American, the ‘Middle East’ is all over the place.
For the Japanese in World War II, surrender was unthinkable. So unthinkable that many soldiers continued to fight even after the island nation eventually did surrender.
Are we witnessing evolution in real time?
A review of the global “wall” that divides rich from poor.
The cosmic story of us wasn’t inevitable, but the culmination of many chance events. By the time our planet was four billion years old, the rise of large plants and animals […]
It’s strange to think that something that died 76m years ago plays a role in modern ecosystems, but life is opportunistic.
It has experts baffled.
After 13.8 billion years, there’s still a whole lot that’s changing as time goes on. With each new year that comes upon us, there are a slew of new events awaiting […]
Most of the Moon’s effects on Earth are small and imperceptible. But for the grunion, it’s absolutely essential. Although it’s the closest astronomical body to Earth, the Moon is still […]
Swirling in the Pacific Ocean is a loose patch of garbage that measures 1 million square miles—about three times the size of France. Now, one organization is beginning to clean it up.