Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.
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Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Europa may be difficult to access. But if a recent study is correct, its subsurface ocean would be more accessible than previously thought.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
Confronting your “absolute stupidity” is a sign you’re on course to learning something new and wonderful.
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”
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Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan enlightens listeners with lessons from space to ignite a sense of purpose to unlock potential, navigate change, and create opportunity.
The ominous cloud of acid rain hasn’t vanished but rather drifted toward the developing world.
What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?
“Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world.”
This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.
Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.
Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.
“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.
Finding life beyond our Solar System requires understanding its host planet.
Scientists have discovered enzymes from several plastic-eating bacteria. So, why are our oceans still full of plastic pollution?
Your brain is wired for trauma. And it can be hot-wired to forget it.
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Fire was crucial to the evolution of human technology. That’s why alien species stuck in the “oxygen bottleneck” may be forever primitive.
Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
One possible vision of the distant future.
The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
