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No, you are most definitely not entitled to your own facts. In fact, you’re required to disclose what evidence would change your mind! “You must remember, my dear lady, the most […]

Farewell Moon, we barely knew you. Bill Nye knows the Moon is moving away from Earth 1.48 inches per year. Will it keep drifting further away, and what happens to Earth when it does?

Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, may spout water vapor miles into space, says NASA, making it possible to better determine whether its vast underwater oceans support extraterrestrial life.

Elon Musk’s growing relationship with President Trump can result in revolutionizing the country’s aging infrastructure.   

Scientists and Imogen Heap team up to create the perfect song to make a baby happy.

Dying is expensive, but it shouldn’t be so.

In between time checks on the Doomsday Clock, Stephen Hawking is here to remind us we are living in dangerous times.

This isn’t an XZibit joke; it’s a real scientific question. And the answer may be that it’s possible after all. “People who work every day are kind of scared of things […]

A strangely reassuring global directory of close to 8,000 radio stations

The 20th century held some incredible advances across all the science. But astrophysics’ best days are yet to come. “When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up […]

Its unique method of creating energy is likely to be employed elsewhere in the space program.   

The environmental legacy of this generally disgraced President is second to none.

Have you heard that life is unlikely around low-mass, red dwarf stars? It might be time to rethink that flawed conclusion. “Laws of nature mixed with evolutionary/historical contingencies allow for […]

You know how bright the full Moon is. Well, from the Moon, how would the ‘full Earth’ compare? “I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted […]

We’re about to kick off the sixth great extinction event. And we’ll follow shortly after.   

Radioactive crystals left behind by ancient bacteria tell us about a long-ago supernova nearby.

And will it get too cold or too hot for our habitability? “What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a […]

Our Moon might even be a rarer occurrence for a Solar System than an ‘Earth’ is. “The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a […]

Science may be one of the most complex human endeavors, but the lessons it teaches can be applied far outside of science. “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single […]

As this stark map shows, domestic violence against children is still legal in most of the world.

A Cornell University professor believes he has our food, climate, and fuel revolution answered all with one organism: microalgae.   

Meteorologist Cliff Mass explains why and how U.S. weather forecasting is falling behind.

Researchers discover the source of a remarkably strange sound coming from the Caribbean.

According to Tali Sharot, our innate optimism bias is necessary, but needs to be taken in doses. 

Geneticists make a surprising find in the DNA of Melanesians.

Whether it’s “super” or not, you won’t want to miss this piece of the Universe. “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab […]

A huge body of water beneath a Bolivian volcano has scientists excited.

Is the animal kingdom oblivious to our jokes or just a really tough crowd? Bill Nye explores the link between intelligence and humor.

Rowan Jacobsen recently wrote an obituary for one of Earth’s natural wonders: the Great Barrier Reef. “The Great Barrier Reef of Australia passed away in 2016 after a long illness. It was 25 million years old,” he wrote in Outside. But publishing its obituary might be a bit premature.

Given all the animals that have gone extinct during Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, Bill Nye would venture back to the 1700s to revive a lovable lost sea animal then living off the coast of Alaska.