The study was small: 8 people from 8 different countries. But the findings have alarmed scientists.
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A new computer model suggests that the 21st century will have more frequent hurricanes of staggering force.
Thanks to museum curators, there’s no shortage of the stuff.
It’s been spectacularly confirmed by observation, but theoretically, it couldn’t have been any other way. If the Sun were to spontaneously cease emitting light, we wouldn’t know about it for about […]
We may not find Klingons, but what we do find will blow our terrestrial minds.
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The Earth is getting warmer, and humans are the cause. This is why. Let’s play pretend for a moment. Pretend, if you can, that you’ve never heard about the idea of […]
They’re creating an unprecedented map of Earth to help government leaders make better decisions in regard to climate change.
Here are 7 often-overlooked World Heritage Sites, each with its own history.
Our Sun will someday run out of fuel. Here’s what it will look like when that happens. The fate of our Sun is unambiguous, determined solely by its mass. If all […]
The greatest danger to our planet is not pollution or climate change, but our own despair.
The findings of the controversial study flew in the face of past research on ice gains in Antarctica.
It makes no “makes no economic or energy sense.”
It was “one of the most complex and intricate endeavors” SpaceX has ever undertaken.
A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
Here are four separate ways you can prove it, even 50 years after-the-fact. 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969, humanity took our first footsteps on the surface of another […]
Tiny bubbles talk photosynthesis.
Technology holds the promise of a better future, but our footprint on the planet threatens to undo all our dreams and progress. It’s pretty easy to look at the world […]
Regan Williams, co-founder of Seen and Heard, wants adults to listen to children.
Antidepressants are destroying underwater ecosystems, which we in turn eat.
A special isotope of plutonium is necessary for missions to Mars and beyond. But we don’t have enough, and aren’t making more fast enough. As 2018 comes to a close, NASA […]
Researchers find an amazing amount of often-weird forms of life below the planet’s surface.
The mathematician and codebreaker invented a water filter that only just got build recently. Could it make the ocean’s drinkable?
In 1919, Woodrow Wilson attempted to rally the U.S. behind the League of Nations. His failure suggested the way forward.
In order to build a second Earth, we need to look at how the first one was made.
You get out what you put in, and we haven’t truly invested in space since Apollo ended. Humanity should be an interplanetary civilization by now. There is no scientific reason that […]
You won’t notice much of a difference unless you’re north of the 55th parallel, though.
Scientists think constructing a miles-long wall along an ice shelf in Antarctica could help protect the world’s largest glacier from melting.