Atop certain glaciers are herds of small mossy balls that somehow move together when no one’s looking.
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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.
Unfortunately, it’s getting easier to predict what might happen to cryptocurrencies when the economy takes a nosedive.
If everything eventually dies and decays, is there a way to prolong the inevitable? Our Universe, as it exists today, puts us in an incredibly privileged position. Had we come […]
One silver lining of the pandemic: The value of common sense, facts and rational decisions increases.
The net famously failed to work as planned last year. Now, a new version is making waves.
And Dr. Jill Tarter never once lost her composure.
The object, originally dubbed “Ultima Thule,” was renamed to “Arrokoth” due to the connection between the word “Thule” and the Nazis.
The university model needs to evolve.
“You’re all going to die” was one typical comment about the all-woman crew of the sailing ship Maiden, the first of its kind in the Whitbread round-the-world race. 30 years later, its captain Tracy Edwards, MBE reflects on the documentary MAIDEN and an act of will and teamwork that changed the world.
The Earth is warming, and humans aren’t doing nearly enough to combat it. Could partially blocking the sunlight be the solution? It’s 2020, and not only is the Earth warmer […]
The world’s most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world’s strangest toponyms.
The 17-year-old climate activist gets a lot of criticism online. Which of those critiques hold water?
Not everything needs a medium to travel through. If we can overcome that assumption, we don’t need the aether at all. All throughout the Universe, different types of signals propagate. Some […]
It marks another milestone in SpaceX’s long-standing effort to make spaceflight cheaper.
Charity and volunteering not only benefit the recipient but help you become happier and healthier in the new year.
After his breakout performance as Breaking Bad’s Walter White — and after playing dad Hal in Malcolm in the Middle — it might seem that Bryan Cranston’s always been as […]
The lack of tall, strong oak trees poses something of a problem for the restoration effort.
Extravagant plans to build Titanic II, a replica of the original White Star Line ship, are back in circulation.
Maps show the oldest company in (nearly) every country – and a few interesting corporate trends.
By transplanting Operation Barbarossa on a map of the US, it showed the devastating effects of the Nazi invasion
What will it take to conquer our immemorial space dream?
Forensic cartography 101: Explain what Brasilia is doing on this map of 1920s South America.
Breakthrough Starshot is moving ahead with an audacious vision for space exploration.
Traveling interstellar distances in human lifetimes is an amazing dream, but it won’t ever be achieved like this. For centuries, ever since we realized that every star we can see in […]
Proxima Centauri, our closest star, is more than 4 light years away. Reaching it under 10,000 years will be challenging; reaching it with living humans will be even harder.
It deploys nets to capture useless space junk.
When scientists claim that an unexplained phenomenon might be due to aliens, they’re giving up on science. Whenever science discovers a new, unexpected phenomenon, it represents a tremendous opportunity to learn […]
If the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, promoted by Stephen Hawking, works exactly as planned, it could lead to disaster. Imagine yourself on a world not so different from Earth, orbiting a […]