Humans churn out about 30 gigatons (30,000,000,000 tons) of material every year.
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Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
Underperforming, the U.S. comes in only 157th out of 196 in global triangularity ranking.
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
If you were awaiting screaming death from the skies, you can relax. For now.
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
A supernova exploded near Earth about 2.5 million years ago, possibly causing an extinction event.
Nuclear weapons, whale sharks, and how to use both to make eco-tourism more sustainable.
The theoretical reasons to expect it are compelling, but the technology required to detect it is unfathomable. All throughout our galaxy, millions of black holes of a variety of masses […]
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.
‘Dorozoku’ map crowd-sources the whereabouts of noisy kids in Japan – but who’s being anti-social here, exactly?
Scientists have detected within the Venusian atmosphere a chemical known to be a byproduct of life.
Based on the atoms that they’re made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here’s why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
A new study says that it could be centuries before millions of the classic toys submerged in the Earth’s seas disintegrate.
A new study lays out the case for the damaging effects of stress on orcas living in tanks.
Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
We’re Earth’s first intelligent, technologically advanced civilization. But maybe not the last. For most of our planet’s history, life in some form has existed on our world. Planet Earth formed some […]
New research suggests the ocean current that delivers warm water to Europe has a one-in-six chance of halting temporarily over the next hundred years, potentially resulting in freezing temperatures.
If there really is another version of you out there in a parallel universe, what can that teach us about reality?
A 71% wet Mars would have two major land masses and one giant ‘Medimartian Sea.’
The corporate word-stock suffers no shortage of overworked metaphors. We drill down to find low hanging fruit, and despite lots of moving parts obscuring our window of opportunity, we mustn’t […]
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
Pandemics have historically given way to social revolution. What will the post-COVID revolution be?
A new study finds the rocks that first formed Earth carried with them enough hydrogen for three times the water we have today.
Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.
From exoplanets to supermassive black holes to the first stars and galaxies, Webb will show us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before.
Learn how to get the best views no matter where you are. Every year, no matter what else is occurring on Earth or in the heavens, you can rely on two […]