Here’s what the world’s space agencies hope to learn about the Red planet.
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Maybe you’ve been wondering if you’re seeing one persistent squirrel or a rotating cast of characters.
There are a lot of unsolved mysteries in the Universe, but dark energy is the most confusing. Here’s why. The majority of the energy in our Universe went completely undiscovered until […]
The current focus on the Chinese and Jews is nothing new.
If this discovery came in a pre-LIGO era, maybe it would have been a surprise. But in 2019, there’s no mystery at all. Did you hear that astronomers had recently […]
It’s the first American news channel to focus on African-American experiences.
Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Right?
A new report calls on the departments of certain scientific fields to double the number of black students by 2030.
“They” has taken on a not-so-new meaning lately. This earned it the scrutiny it needed to win.
“I was so moved when I saw the cells stir,” said 90-year-old study co-author Akira Iritani. “I’d been hoping for this for 20 years.”
Or, quite possibly, is it more complex than either one of those scenarios? If there’s one lesson that humanity should have learned from the 20th century, it’s this: the Universe […]
The Leonid meteor shower peaks today. Its parent comet taught us where meteor showers come from. Every year, as Earth regularly orbits the Sun, meteor showers repeatedly recur. While August’s Perseids […]
Your microbiome begins in your mouth. Why don’t we look there more often?
As it turns out, people who can afford to fly all the time use more energy than anybody else.
If the multiverse is real, where does all the energy for it come from? One of the biggest scientific puzzles, even given our knowledge of the Big Bang, is to understand […]
The separation of church and state is being dismantled one bill at a time.
If we could see in three dimensions instead of two, we’d never have thought otherwise. Perhaps the most famous sight of a dying star is the Ring Nebula, discovered in […]
The Universe, according to our best understanding, just doesn’t add up. The Universe, according to our best understanding, just doesn’t add up. Wherever we look — from tiny subatomic scales all the way […]
Over 800 prisoners in Texas relate their experiences.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own […]
A punishment is handed down for performing shocking research on human embryos.
Do adults need to be more carefree, in order for their lives to go well?
Ending social distancing won’t only make us sicker, but will tank the health care industry in the process. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world. As of today, […]
Entropy always increases, but that doesn’t mean it was zero to start with. One of the most inviolable laws in the Universe is the second law of thermodynamics: that in any […]
You might think that we live in a three dimensional Universe based on space alone. But you cannot leave time out of it. If you were asked to describe how you […]
More than 30 essays on the subject “Why I became a Nazi” written by German women in 1934 have been lying fallow in the archives.
Determining whether human nature is short-sighted when it comes to survival-necessary situations
How do you overcome the tension between autonomy and solidarity?
The quest for the ultimate vacuum just got taken to the next level thanks to a new technique: the quantum squeezer. One of the most understated frontiers in all of […]