Preferring “bases not places,” the U.S. does not really resemble the empires of old.
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Study shows ripples across a newly fertilized egg are similar to ocean and atmospheric circulations.
As we embrace green solutions, nuclear should absolutely be part of the equation. For thousands upon thousands of years, humans have been harnessing the power of nature to provide energy […]
Instead of just Afghanistan, the U.S. military ought to withdraw from the entire Middle East and much of the rest of the world.
A new study finds that starlet sea anemones have the unique ability to grow more tentacles when they’ve got more to eat.
A new study bases its calculations on more than the great white shark.
The ultimate lesson from Dr. Birx is one we should never, ever repeat. About a year ago, as the world experienced the deadly “first wave” associated with the coronavirus pandemic, many […]
With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.
Scientists are befuddled by where the shark gets most of its food.
It looks like a busy hurricane season ahead. Probably.
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.
Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
Solar geoengineering ideas could weaken storms in both hemispheres, scientists find.
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
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. […]
Humans churn out about 30 gigatons (30,000,000,000 tons) of material every year.
A leading British space scientist thinks there is life under the ice sheets of Europa.
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
Underperforming, the U.S. comes in only 157th out of 196 in global triangularity ranking.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
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.
Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
A supernova exploded near Earth about 2.5 million years ago, possibly causing an extinction event.
‘Dorozoku’ map crowd-sources the whereabouts of noisy kids in Japan – but who’s being anti-social here, exactly?
If you were awaiting screaming death from the skies, you can relax. For now.
Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.
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 […]