A new report from The New York Times describes a Pentagon task force’s long-standing project to collect data on unidentified aerial phenomena and a Pentagon consultant who says the U.S. has collected crashed “off-world vehicles.”
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The net famously failed to work as planned last year. Now, a new version is making waves.
Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be kept at -100°F until it’s administered. Can caregivers deliver?
Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars.
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.
The new system could soon greatly improve foreign-language interactions.
Ending social distancing won’t only make us sicker, but will tank the health care industry in the process. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world. As of today, […]
In 1789, William Herschel discovered this unique moon around Saturn. 230 years later, its secrets are more promising than ever. Today marks the 230th anniversary of the discovery of Enceladus, one […]
The trans-Tasman and Pacific bubbles will likely be among the first safe international travel zones in the world.
Watch as the small mirror joins millions of other pieces of space junk currently orbiting the planet.
Even after our merger with Andromeda, we might retain our spiral shape for trillions of years. You probably don’t think about it very often, but the Milky Way galaxy won’t remain […]
Just because you have “star” in your name doesn’t mean you are one. When we think about the objects in our Universe, they fall into two categories: self-luminous objects, like stars, […]
Methane is 80 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.
As it turns out, people who can afford to fly all the time use more energy than anybody else.
Quantum physics just keeps getting weirder, even as it gets more fascinating. “Is it a wave or is it a particle?” Never has such a simple question had such a […]
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 […]
What are the chances that an online connection will lead to true love?
The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
The Silicon Valley titan has promised scholarships for its tech-focused certificate courses alongside $10 million in job training grants.
The heart of the religious ritual is mysticism, argues Brian Muraresku in “The Immortality Key.”
Despite all the challenges, Hubble has vindicated this discovery. Practically everywhere we look in the Universe, the large-scale objects that we see — small galaxies, large galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies, […]
Have any of the stars we can see burned themselves out completely? When we look out across the Universe, we’re also peering back in time. In the early 21st-century, we’ve […]
Big Think co-founder and CEO Victoria Brown breaks down the process of transitioning from founder to boss in her new book, Digital Goddess.
Several experts have weighed in on our sometimes morbid curiosity and fascination with true crime.
The Mars 2020 rover is set to launch in July of the same year, setting the stage for years and years of science on the Red Planet.
And a combination of all three might take us farther than ever. If you want to see the farthest objects in the Universe, you have to know not only where to […]
Forgetting them, at any step, can lead to unscientific conclusions. No one, not even the smartest among us, were competent scientists from the outset. The concept of science is simple […]
Groundbreaking new research suggests gamma-ray bursts are caused by a star’s collapsing magnetic field.
A team of scientists in Basel believes this will open up new lines of research.
Experts plead with Americans to keep gatherings limited this Thanksgiving, while families devise new ways to celebrate the holidays.