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Glacier McGlacierface? Not likely. NASA has set some classy themes that will guide the naming of geographical features of Pluto and its moons.
Elon Musk announces that SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a mission around the moon in 2018.
What happens up there directly affects life down here. From star-gazing to quantum mechanics, astronomy is one of humanity's great thruster engines of innovation.
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A "forbidden research" conference at MIT tackles areas of science constrained by ethical, cultural and institutional restrictions.
Loop quantum gravity gets the ancient atomist back into the loop, showing how black holes might explode, and that the Big Bang might be a Big Bounce.
There are many scientific explanations for ghost sightings. This is the first ever to involve CERN.
Scientists release observation data from 1,600 stars in hopes the public can help find planets that orbit stars outside our solar system.
TRAPPIST-1 is 40 light years from Earth. It would take us millions of years to get there.
Harvard scientists say they are two years away from creating a hybrid embryo with mammoth traits.
Bill Gates proposes an ingenious solution to the job losses from the coming automation.
We are what we are because of genes; we are who we are because of memes. Philosopher Daniel Dennett muses on an idea put forward by Richard Dawkins in 1976.
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Creating a race of super soldiers is off the table, too.
Churchill displays a surprising amount of knowledge on a question that we are still wrestling with.
Time is this wild fourth dimension in nature, says Bill Nye. We depend on its neat measurements for survival – but subjectively it continues to elude us.
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The causes of hit products are themselves uncausable. 'Hit Makers' by Derek Thompson explains why we know how to make songs, but not hits.
The human mind is like a Turing machine, says Daniel Dennett. It's made up of unthinking cogs – but when combined in the right order, their motion gives rise to consciousness.
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Just as the collective ruckus of science deniers hits its peak, Netflix announces a date for 'Bill Nye Saves the World', a heroic new show that will answer the most pressing science questions of our era.
Reading popular science articles is a fun pastime for many people, and can help everybody understand the world of science. But is there a downside to making this information so easy to understand?
Evolutionary biologists generally agree that humans evolved from a bacteria-like ancestor, rather than a viral one. But what if we're chemically connected?
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Physicists finds evidence from just after the Big Bang that supports the controversial holographic universe theory.
Regardless of truth, the best storyteller wins: how else could a quarter of Americans, many struggling financially, ‘relate’ to a billionaire real estate mogul?
Amazon introduces a monthly STEM toy subscription box aimed at kids – because we're all born curious.
Scientists are planning a Scientists’ March on Washington on April 22 to protest the Trump administration’s anti-science policies.
The spreading of misinformation and doubt has undermined support for climate change. Despite broad consensus from climate scientists that humans are largely responsible for climate change, only 27% of Americans think there is agreement. New research points to a possible way to "vaccinate" against this misinformation.
Scientists from Harvard University claim to have created metallic hydrogen, a new metal with revolutionary potential applications.
Reviving the “Lesbian Rule” (which Aristotle wrote about, and was proverbial in Shakespeare's day) can help us handle a new kind of weaponized-math threat (that Cathy O’Neil calls “Weapons of Math Destruction”).
Physicists propose that violations of a fundamental law of physics in early stages of the universe are responsible for the mysterious dark energy.
A new study may explain why the Australian megafauna went extinct around 45,000 years ago.
Has technology advanced enough that we could stitch together body parts and reanimate the dead? Bill Nye one-ups that old-school Frankenstein vision with newer (and cooler) scientific possibilities.
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Your willpower is a muscle that can be trained. Here is a wealth of scientific information to help you understand your behavior and engineer a successful health and weight-loss plan.
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