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Just a few simple, common conditions can create the perfect storm. 80% of the time, humans are the trigger. “I’d rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure […]
Psychologists sort human personalities into five traits, each of which you can score high or low on.
Scientists find a surprising way to biodegrade plastic at an impressively fast rate.
Elon Musk publishes a visionary paper on his company’s plans to colonize space.
Will your grandchildren live in cities on Antarctica?
Earthquake? Nuclear explosion? Fission or fusion? We know, even if world leaders lie. “North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries […]
We should be exploring the oceans as seriously as we explore space.
Every star must eventually run out of fuel and die… but did you know the galaxy itself will come to an end someday? “Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, […]
And what it found was a world swimming, literally, with possibilities. Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes the […]
“Space-time is not as static as it appears, it’s constantly moving,” one researcher said.
A chorus of new science is showing that evolution has orchestrated life to leave no room for solos. A grander view of life is revealing higher-level, need-centric relational logic patterns (as in David Haskell’s The Songs of Trees).
Perhaps it is more doable now than when it was first proposed, back in the early 1980s
How did earlier records get it so wrong, and why do scientists believe they’re right this time?
The Antipode may one day revolutionize your commute. It would be 10 times faster than the Concorde and take you across the ocean before you could finish an episode of The Simpsons.
An accidental discovery may lead to a vaccine-like treatment for depression and PTSD.
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle shares the wonder of experiencing the ocean’s creatures in the wild.
A new study may explain why the Australian megafauna went extinct around 45,000 years ago.
Alpha Centauri A and B are just 4.37 light years away. Do they have planets around them? And possibly life? We just might find out! “Resources exist to be consumed. And […]
A new mapping method corrects not only for visual distortions but also for cultural ones.
But are any of these potentially Earth-like worlds actually inhabited? Here are the prospects. “It isn’t only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It’s the sense I […]
The red planet once wasn’t so different from Earth. Here’s what happened. “Mars’ atmosphere is so thin, you do not need a lot of streamlining. By the time the ship […]
Only in 1992 was science able to calculate the remotest part of the ocean
Last week, an asteroid fell from the sky and struck the Lake Michigan area. What if it had been a city-killer instead? “By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save […]
Anxiety can be a force for good, writes Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön.
Elon Musk announces that SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a mission around the moon in 2018.
We might have been spared the worst of Hurricane Matthew, but the underlying science is informative at any time! “She didn’t even know what she’d do when she got back to […]
Meteorologists propose a stunning new explanation for the mysterious events in the Bermuda Triangle.
A very small person asks a very big question: why aren’t the moons of gaseous planets also made of gas?
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PTSD develops after a person experiences, or is a witness to, a life-threatening or traumatic event — a natural disaster, for example — or is exposed to combat, or sexual […]