The Geminid meteor shower grows more intense with every year, and it’s expected to be particularly bright in 2018.
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The rocket reached an altitude of 51 miles, meeting the Federal Aviation Administration’s definition of space.
MIT researchers have discovered how to turn wasp venom into an antibiotic.
The potential of blockchain might have been ruined for you by your unemployed cousin who wears Balenciagas to Thanksgiving dinner and told you to enter into the cryptocurrency market at […]
Whether or not there are tropical islands in 50 years might depend on whether or not we can eat fewer hamburgers.
Door-to-door brush salesman Norman Hall had a unique way of explaining what his day is like to Dan Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Hall […]
It’s either a cosmic mystery or a terribly mundane mistake. The Universe is expanding, and every scientist in the field agrees with that. The observations overwhelmingly support that straightforward conclusion, and […]
The photos were taken the same day as Russian cosmonauts investigated a mysterious hole discovered in one of the craft.
“Didn’t you see me Googling ‘baby not moving?'” Gillian Brockell wrote a heartbreaking open letter to big tech companies imploring them to change the ways they target ads to users.
Matter from the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.
One cardinal is accused of covering up sexual abuse. The other faces criminal charges in Australia.
Technology proves what women know and men may not want to hear
What can America learn from this?
From the cosmic blast into another being’s mind, to rolling bliss or obedient mind-slavery, fictional drugs have it all.
Despite itself, this collection of awful cartography may just make a few useful observations.
It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it.
The Standard Model explains all the particles and interactions we see. But it can’t explain this. Of all the particles that we know of, the elusive neutrino is by far the […]
The second reason Sarah Robb O’Hagan — CEO of Flywheel Sports and former president of Gatorade — lost a job in her 20s is that “I was actually not courageous […]
That’s a sharp increase from the 1960s when it took the same share of scientists an average of 35 years to drop out of academia.
Technology’s rapid advances may slow down, limiting our possibilities.
The bold technique involves surgically implanting a so-called microneedle patch directly onto the heart.
Breakthrough Starshot is moving ahead with an audacious vision for space exploration.
With a total of 10 black holes detected, what we’ve learned about the Universe is truly amazing. On September 14th, 2015, just days after LIGO first turned on at its new-and-improved […]
Jewish people living in nearly all European countries report that anti-Semitism has grown in recent years.
Secretary-General António Guterres said corruption is “an assault on the values of the United Nations.”
The National Institutes of Health recently began a $300-million study to examine the effects of screen time on developing brains.
China’s rise has necessitated a global PR push. It includes influencing how the movies you watch depict China.
More and more research points to a serious mistake we made in how biomechanics works.
How do we see extremely short-lived stars in places that haven’t experienced star-formation in over 10 billion years? The most fundamental truth about stars is that when they run out of […]