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Scientists do not know what is causing the overabundance of the gas.
Asteroid collisions aren’t always bad.
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.
It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
Scientists across a range of disciplines have helped solve Darwin’s dilemma.
Mars and Earth were sister planets in many ways, with early similar conditions. Why did Mars die? The leading explanation isn’t universal.
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.
By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
This might help you make it to the end of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic.
All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
We’re still using 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid a year, but burials are becoming far less common.
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study many dangerous cosmic phenomena, knowledge of which may help save humanity.
Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
A “bio-battery” made from genetically engineered bacteria could store excess renewable energy and release it as needed.
If Rome was not built in a day, why do you think you can be?
Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.
The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?
We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.