The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.
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The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
Although early Earth was a molten hellscape, once it cooled, life arose almost immediately. That original chain of life remains unbroken.
This new geologic activity could be part of a thousand-year cycle, ushering in a new era of volcanism on the island.
Figuring out the answer involved a prism, a pail of water, and a 50 year effort by the most famous father-son astronomer duo ever.
Sometimes you just want to hear, “I know what it’s like.”
How scientists found out that we live in a cosmic aquarium.
There are two methods to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. The results do not agree with each other, and this is a big problem.
The last time the population shrank was during the great famine of 1959-61.
Moral panics about the content of children’s cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
“I was incarcerated well before I was in prison and I was free before the gates of prison opened up and let me out.”
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Nicole has been dating someone for a while but it’s not working out from her point of view. Is sudden radio silence an ethical option?
Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
JWST has brought us more distant views of the early Universe than ever before. Is the Big Bang, and all of modern cosmology, in trouble?
From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics’ biggest surprise.
Exile is a kind of death of who you once were.
A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
A panel of healthcare professionals much preferred responses that came from the chatbot in a recent study.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota’s largest patch of old-growth trees.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
The initial study lays the groundwork for another larger, longer phase 2 trial.