With a 5-10 year warning, we could develop a plan to change an asteroid’s trajectory.
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Your bones would “explode.”
The results of this study help us better understand how stars are born and how they develop.
You don’t have to wait for 2018 to know that it likely won’t be a year with 25+ magnitude 7.0 earthquakes. A new story based on a fascinating scientific paper […]
In line with his own ingrained assumptions, the standard ones of Victorian England, Darwin maintained that female inferiority is an inescapable consequence of nature.
Can genius be reproduced from extracted DNA? Introducing the Leonardo Project.
Is Disney creating a G-Rated Westworld? Disney Enterprises recently filed a patent for a “soft body robot for physical interaction with humans.” The result may be similar to Baymax, the inflatable therapeutic robot from Disney’s Big Hero 6.
Research shows the groups have different tastes when buying science books. For the most part.
In The Road to Character, David Brooks argues that our moral vocabulary is severely lacking.
How can we stop extinction? One solution scientists have been developing for decades is de-extinction — the process of resurrecting extinct species through genetic engineering.
65 million years, an impact wiped out 30% of all life on Earth. Could another one be imminent? “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” […]
A 99-million-year-old dinosaur tail with feathers was examined in a new study by an international team of researchers.
A new study discovers why whales grew to be the largest animals on our planet.
We take for granted how much the Moon does for Earth, but not all of the changes would be bad. “If we get rid of the moon, women, those menstrual cycles […]
From peanuts over petroleum to opium: these are the exports that power global trade
A new study may explain why the Australian megafauna went extinct around 45,000 years ago.
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 […]
A new generation of tabletop physics devices may be the next forefront for breakthrough discoveries.
Given all the animals that have gone extinct during Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, Bill Nye would venture back to the 1700s to revive a lovable lost sea animal then living off the coast of Alaska.
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We claim it’s the leftover glow from the Big Bang, but where is this light actually coming from? “We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we […]
Bill Nye answers the big one: Can faith and science can co-exist, or is religious belief dependent on ignoring science?
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That’s not how probability works. Or asteroids, for that matter. “Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, […]
The asteroid that hit the now-Yucatan Peninsula allowed the dinosaurs a more memorable end, but they were already doomed says a study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
If you gazed up at the Perseids, you’ll want to appreciate the fact that we’re still here. “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what […]
Bill Nye explains the ways in which creationism hurts kids by making scientific inquiry impossible.
There’s never been a more important time to be aware of how the fate of the Earth depends on us. “We only have one planet that serves as an example and […]
Might Armageddon come not from an asteroid or a comet, but by something completely unseen altogether? “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what […]
In Netflix’s “Stranger Things” characters enter a parallel dimension. Could this actually happen?
If we can’t even witness the birth of our Solar System and planet, how can we claim to see the birth of the Universe? “There have to be moments when […]