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Will your grandchildren live in cities on Antarctica?

Every star must eventually run out of fuel and die… but did you know the galaxy itself will come to an end someday? “Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, […]

“Space-time is not as static as it appears, it’s constantly moving,” one researcher said.   

We should be exploring the oceans as seriously as we explore space.

A chorus of new science is showing that evolution has orchestrated life to leave no room for solos. A grander view of life is revealing higher-level, need-centric relational logic patterns (as in David Haskell’s The Songs of Trees).

Perhaps it is more doable now than when it was first proposed, back in the early 1980s

And what it found was a world swimming, literally, with possibilities. Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes the […]

How did earlier records get it so wrong, and why do scientists believe they’re right this time?

An accidental discovery may lead to a vaccine-like treatment for depression and PTSD.

The Antipode may one day revolutionize your commute. It would be 10 times faster than the Concorde and take you across the ocean before you could finish an episode of The Simpsons. 

Alpha Centauri A and B are just 4.37 light years away. Do they have planets around them? And possibly life? We just might find out! “Resources exist to be consumed. And […]

A new study may explain why the Australian megafauna went extinct around 45,000 years ago.

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle shares the wonder of experiencing the ocean’s creatures in the wild.

But are any of these potentially Earth-like worlds actually inhabited? Here are the prospects. “It isn’t only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It’s the sense I […]

A new mapping method corrects not only for visual distortions but also for cultural ones.

The red planet once wasn’t so different from Earth. Here’s what happened. “Mars’ atmosphere is so thin, you do not need a lot of streamlining. By the time the ship […]

Anxiety can be a force for good, writes Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön.

Last week, an asteroid fell from the sky and struck the Lake Michigan area. What if it had been a city-killer instead? “By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save […]

Elon Musk announces that SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a mission around the moon in 2018.

Only in 1992 was science able to calculate the remotest part of the ocean

We might have been spared the worst of Hurricane Matthew, but the underlying science is informative at any time! “She didn’t even know what she’d do when she got back to […]

Meteorologists propose a stunning new explanation for the mysterious events in the Bermuda Triangle.

PTSD develops after a person experiences, or is a witness to, a life-threatening or traumatic event — a natural disaster, for example — or is exposed to combat, or sexual […]

Is it good science in practice or just a smokescreen?   

Jonathon Keats proposes a “Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative” to help return the favor after taking so many great ideas from them.

When we think about a long-term solution to our energy needs, none of today’s options are this good. “I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would […]

A very small person asks a very big question: why aren’t the moons of gaseous planets also made of gas?

More massive is bigger, less massive is smaller, right? That’s not even half the story. “Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced […]

Life may not be a rarity after all, but the result of a certain set of conditions.  

National Parks have long been a staple of American wildlife conversation. Why not have some underwater?