The cumulative effect of plastics is taking its toll on the world. So supermarkets are starting to cut it out.
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The quest for the cause of the cosmos is an ancient quest. Neil Turok offers a fascinating new theory.
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Wild boars in the sewers of London. Augmented humans of the future. Jason’s high school friend, celebrated children’s author Jacob Sager Weinstein, on imaginary histories and possible futures.
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Since 2016, the exoplanet Proxima b has been a top candidate in the search for alien life. But new findings show that a stellar flare might have scorched that hope entirely.
You’ll be surprised how many commonly known science “facts” are actually total misconceptions.
Really puts the whole “don’t give up until you’re dead” thing to shame.
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The IAU has just approved a dozen new names for features on Pluto’s moon Charon. They draw from an array of famous authors, characters, mythical objects and one U.S. filmmaker.
Diamonds can be formed in one of four fascinating ways.
How three factors come together to unfreeze the ice, and unlock the potential for extraterrestrial life. “Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a […]
Congress refused the majority of Trump’s proposed cuts to NASA’s budget. But many uncertainties remain. On March 21st, 2018, both branches of Congress passed the United States’ Consolidated Appropriations Act, […]
A longtime debate over Buddhism’s religiosity has drawn a line between metaphysics and action.
Our best physical theories predict that a multiverse exists. But if we can’t test it, is it really scientific? The Universe is all there ever was, all there is, and […]
If dark energy were stronger or weaker, everything would be pretty much the same. And that’s a puzzle. After the Big Bang, the Universe was full of matter and radiation. It […]
It would be disappointing and surprising if Earth were the only template for habitability in the Universe.
Who will live on the this brand-new floating nation in the South Pacific—and how?
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Intelligent aliens, if they exist in the galaxy or the Universe, might be detectable from a variety of signals: electromagnetic, from planet modification, or because they’re spacefaring. But we haven’t […]
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