If you were to compress the entire history of the Universe into one calendar year, everything we love happens on December 31st. Our Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years […]
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The week-long global protest, which is calling for an end to the age of fossil fuels, is taking place in more than 160 countries today.
Truth is, dinosaurs aren’t as distinct as you may think, but to find out why, we first have to consider how we got the term “dinosaur.”
If an AT-AT walker (or something even larger) wanted to walk across a frozen lake, how thick would the ice have to be? Each winter, one of the most spectacular phenomena […]
Two space agencies plan missions to deflect an asteroid.
Chinese scientists find a 600-million-year-old creature.
The end of the world is the main focus of his new book.
How a cataclysm worse than what killed the dinosaurs destroyed 90 percent of all life on Earth.
The American Museum of Natural History presents the new, more accurate T. rex.
Researchers find that toddlers verbalize and interact more with their parents when reading sessions feature print books, not tablets.
If they saw us as we were before the recent industrial revolution, would there be any reason to particularly care about us? All across the Universe, trillions of galaxies can be […]
On Tuesday, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by the space rock, located some 4 billion miles away from Earth.
Recent books that are sure to add to your intelligence.
It’s not a question of could they, but have they? Here’s how we’ll find out. It’s no secret that fragments of asteroids, comets, and other spaceborne objects have been found here […]
Scientists in Scotland find tracks of the largest animal that walked on Earth during the Middle Jurassic Period.
A large analysis shows that many species are completely changing their habits to avoid humans.
An asteroid about the size of a New York City block is flying between the Earth and the Moon today. How close, though?
From 4 billion miles away, it says a lot about the meaning of time.
Our friendly neighborhood gas giant serves as a cosmic catcher’s mitt.
Some of the meteorites that strike our planet originate from our red neighbor, Mars. Here’s how we know. As the planets orbit the Sun, well-separated from one another, we tend to […]
Daydreaming is good. But if you’re doing too much of it, you might have a totally different brain.
The age-old question, finally answered. Kind of.
For millions of years, this popular color dominated the world.
And why Einstein’s quest for unification was doomed from the start. If you wanted to answer the question of what’s truly fundamental in this Universe, you’d need to investigate matter and […]
Is everyone’s favorite Thanksgiving centerpiece really to blame for the post-dinner doldrums?
This asteroid is feeling itself, clearly.
The climate change we’re witnessing is more dramatic than we might think.
Most people think human extinction would be bad. These people aren’t philosophers.