Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.
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It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
Water is vital for life. Luckily for spacefaring humans, the solar system is full of it.
According to the CDC, 50 countries worldwide have drinkable tap water. But look closer, and the picture is more nuanced.
Meet the world’s largest landowners.
Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?
Here’s what recent DESI measurements suggest — and why it’s too early to update conventional predictions about the Universe’s distant future.
According to Peter Ward’s “Medea hypothesis,” photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
It may seem as though top performers are always on, but the secret to their success is taking the time to recharge.
Chemical changes inside Mars’ core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?
Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure.
The space telescope’s findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.
Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.
EV charging stations are the most widespread alternative to gas and diesel pumps. Each alternative has its own hotspots and “deserts.”
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
One hypothesis: “gossip traps.”
Visionaries from Socrates to Steve Jobs have touted curiosity as an essential quality. Here’s how to supercharge your spirit of inquiry.
“A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980.”
The Moon is the most likely place for evidence from the dawn of life on Earth to be preserved in cold storage.
“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”
If you want to have foamy beer inside the comfort of your own home, you need to invest in a special nucleated glass.
Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.
Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.
Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth’s coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.
The big-picture physics is simple – let gravity do its job.
About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.
More than a third of Americans don’t get enough sleep. Diet is an important, under-recognized culprit.