Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
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From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
The quadratic formula isn’t just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.
Time isn’t the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.
Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
Even with six months’ notice, we can’t stop an incoming asteroid.
Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.
Circle spoofing is an advanced form of GPS manipulation – but nobody knows exactly how, or why.
Scientists should be cautious when expressing an opinion based on little more than speculation.
Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.
It doesn’t have to be a science-fiction dream. For as long as human beings have been watching the night sky, we’ve dreamed of visiting other worlds and truly seeing what’s […]
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
The opening lines of Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News lay bare the culture of denial in the US.
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.
Non-avian dinosaurs were thought terrestrially bound, but newly unearthed fossils suggest they conquered prehistoric waters, too.
Avi Loeb says it’s aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here’s why. In 2017, an astronomical event occurred that was unlike any other: for the first time, we observed an object that […]
‘Kanal Istanbul’ would create a second Bosporus – and immortalize its creator.
An astrophysicist proposes new designs for stellar engines that can move a solar system.
Having grown kids still at home is not likely to do you, or them, any permanent harm.
The few seconds of nuclear explosion opening shots in Godzilla alone required more than 6.5 times the entire budget of the monster movie they ended up in.
Can passenger airships make a triumphantly ‘green’ comeback?
Alexandre Dumas’ famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.
O.T. Olsen’s gorgeous ‘Piscatorial Atlas’ (1883) describes a world now destroyed and forgotten
Atop certain glaciers are herds of small mossy balls that somehow move together when no one’s looking.
Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.