Nearly a half-century after Edward Abbey wrote Desert Solitaire, the book reminds us of the necessity of our national park system.
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In How Emotions Are Made psychology professor Lisa Fedlman Barrett considers the role of emotions in health.
What do our future missions in physics, astronomy, astrophysics and more hold? If you went back in time just 30 years, the world as we it was a completely different place. […]
NASA and SETI invite the public to nickname a small icy world, or pair of worlds, in the distant Kuiper Belt ahead of a New Horizons 2019 flyby.
The secret behind the Em Drive’s thrust, which is real, may be in the long-discarded pilot wave theory.
Can scientists agree on a code of ethics? The World Economic Forum Young Scientists community just proposed a Code of Ethics, which was a topic of discussion at the recent World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
A piece of legislation to address the problem is getting widespread support. Yet, it’s stalled.
If the bolide had hit just 30 seconds later, we’d be looking at a very different Earth.
Like any stereotype, there are some elements of truth in all of them, but they oversimplify reality and create a lot of roadblocks to healthy collaboration.
If a former Nazi realized its importance nearly 50 years ago, perhaps we all can, too. Around the country and around the world, there is no shortage of human suffering. Poverty, […]
Which is worse? Alcohol or marijuana?
An increase in carbon dioxide is not doing good things to our produce. Or bodies.
The list of substances banned from Olympic competition is staggering. Marijuana is on the list, but derivative cannabinoids aren’t. Whats going on, and should marijuana even be banned?
NASA scientists discover what two places in the solar system might have favorable conditions for alien life.
Cultural diversity is not only an enormous issue for organizations of all sizes—it’s an inevitable fact of life in our increasingly globalized economy. Companies can benefit greatly from the variety […]
NASA scientists are sifting through some of the last transmissions from Cassini. And what they’re finding are kittens. You read that right.
The first component of a planned “space kingdom” has been launched into orbit.
Children’s drawings of houses rendered as they’d look in real life.
In 2016, the number of opioid-related deaths hit 42,000, an all-time record. But gun deaths were nearly that same number, and have been consistently that high. If you want to know […]
It isn’t the rapture or some crazy prophesy, but science, that tells us when and how the end will come. “The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic […]
Many great minds have plenty of bad things to say about democracy, but what about the people who think it is great?
How much genetic diversity is actually needed to keep a population healthy?
It isn’t about saving us from aliens at all. “To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I […]
Finding New Year’s resolutions isn’t always easy. To help you out, we’ve gotten ideas from some of the greatest thinkers of all time.
A NYT article says the Defense Department been tracking mystery aircraft.
New research shows how parrots and crows learn new skills through play. Can adults implement this advice?
Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.
The Internet is all shadows and mirrors—but what if it were the central source of truth? Thanks to Blockchain technology, it’s a future that’s possible.
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For the first time, we’ve seen neutron stars merge. At last, the gravitational and electromagnetic sky are one. “It’s becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory […]