We don’t know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.
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Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.
Here’s what recent DESI measurements suggest — and why it’s too early to update conventional predictions about the Universe’s distant future.
At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it.
According to the CDC, 50 countries worldwide have drinkable tap water. But look closer, and the picture is more nuanced.
It may seem as though top performers are always on, but the secret to their success is taking the time to recharge.
Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure.
The most unique interloper into our Solar System has a natural explanation that fits perfectly — no aliens required.
Meet the world’s largest landowners.
Chemical changes inside Mars’ core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?
Water on Mars is key for human survival on the Red Planet, not just for drinking but for growing food and making fuel and oxygen.
It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
According to Peter Ward’s “Medea hypothesis,” photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?
The space telescope’s findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.
The Moon is the most likely place for evidence from the dawn of life on Earth to be preserved in cold storage.
Visionaries from Socrates to Steve Jobs have touted curiosity as an essential quality. Here’s how to supercharge your spirit of inquiry.
One hypothesis: “gossip traps.”
Water is vital for life. Luckily for spacefaring humans, the solar system is full of it.
Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.
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.
“A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980.”
Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.
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.
“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.”
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.
If you want to have foamy beer inside the comfort of your own home, you need to invest in a special nucleated glass.
About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.