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A minister misspeaks – and accidentally creates an entire Latin American country

A massive chart of humankind’s 113 spacecraft so far and where they’ve gone.

What it means that 2016 is the hottest year on record. “There are now dozens of hockey sticks and the all come to the same basic conclusion. The recent warming does […]

One controversial aspect, O’Neill says the FDA should only regulate drugs for safety, not efficacy.   

Several studies confirm that 2016 is shaping up to be the hottest year ever.

Could life on Earth have spawned more than once?   

Researchers possibly identify LUCA, the common ancestor to all life on Earth, and figure out where it lived.

This is not the outcome you’re looking for.

But that’s okay; the most likely world for life may not be like Earth, after all. “You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.” […]

A new partnership is leveraging the power of AI to hunt down online sex traffickers.

From a “watery past” to water today! “If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they’ve been to Mars, you […]

Through human caused climate change, we are barreling toward a world with less stability, less resources, more disease, and more lives lost to extreme weather events.   

Alien life may be so different from us that we wouldn’t even recognize it as life.

Silicon Valley engineers and financiers make up the lion’s share of the movement.   

Where liquids are impossible, science gets really interesting! “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” –Rabindranath Tagore If you brought liquid water into outer space, […]

That’s not how probability works. Or asteroids, for that matter. “Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, […]

When meteors like these crash into a planet, there’s not a lot that can be done except watch the fireworks. 

A live-blog event happened a week ago, but you can catch the entire thing anew here, right now! “We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in […]

Danish scientists use a new dating technique to find startling estimates for the age of the world’s longest-living vertebrate species.

Beyond climate change, ice ages or even the death of our Sun, the cosmic dance continues for ages. Here’s how it will truly end. “The way to love anything is to […]

A second major California fault line has been found near the San Andreas Fault.

Mark Zuckerberg insists the future of virtual reality will put “people first.” The development trajectory of the technology tells another story. 

We can all rattle off a few Greek philosophers to win a trivia prize, but how many Golden Age philosophers are you familiar with? Here’s a primer.

A new study sheds light on the evolutionary connection between fish fins and human fingers.

Christopher Hitchens argued that religion makes humans “extremely self-centered.”

It’s a web, it’s a cloud – it’s under attack: how outages reveal the actual shape of the internet

After nearly 20 years in orbit around Saturn, Cassini prepares to say goodbye. “All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, […]

The Kardashev Scale measures the advancement of cosmic societies.

Our tiny Earth may have changed a lot, but the gradual changes of the Universe add up, too. “We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those […]

There is software that can track drones in open areas, but none that can do so in tight-knit, urban ones.