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Dylan McWilliams was bit by a shark in Hawaii less than a year after being bit by a bear in Colorado. What are the odds? There’s an old saying out there […]
A rare counter-example to the flood of Temperance maps, this Prohibition-era chart celebrates alcohol in its many forms
The ‘giant impact’ that led to Earth might not have been so giant, after all. A little over 4.5 billion years ago, our Solar System began to form. Somewhere in the […]
In order to reap the greatest rewards, we have to think big and invest big. One of these four missions will deliver like never before. When it comes to exploring the […]
Health experts told Congress that we’re woefully unprepared for the coming realities of climate change. Will we listen?
All the planets, asteroids, and Kuiper belt objects out there all point to the same conclusion: it’s giant impacts or no moons at all. Out of all the rocky planets […]
This piece of music was beamed into back hole 1A 0620-00, about 3,457 light years away. You can listen to the six-minute song, with spoken word by Stephen Hawking, right here.
Mining asteroids might seem like the stuff of science fiction, but there are companies and a few governments already working hard to make it real.
Traveling to Mars is going to be hard. Not going completely bonkers when we’re there may be even harder.
If the zouave of the Alma bridge gets his feet wet, Paris knows to start worrying
Space X successfully launches TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite a.k.a. “The Planet Hunter.” NASA will use it to search for planets that may support extraterrestrial life.
Despite a low unemployment rate, all is not well in the United States. Not by a long shot.
Researchers at MIT have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks. These nanorobots are the size of a human cell and they could flow through intestines or pipelines to detect problems.
Turn on, tune in, and drop out and into a good psychedelic book.
But we shouldn’t give up on direct detection. Here’s why. Dark matter is not only the most abundant form of matter in the Universe, it’s also the most mysterious. Whereas all […]
The season finale gets the one thing Star Trek is famous for — ethics — completely wrong. Life is full of dilemmas whose solutions seem paradoxical. To obtain peace, you must prepare for war. […]
North Korea’s statements, actions, and the physics of how to do it all point to the same terrifying conclusion. There are few things in this world that have the capability […]
There is more than one type of bilingualism.
There’s a halo of dark matter permeating every galaxy, and that means its particles pass through us, too. The Universe, despite all the planets, stars, gas, dust, galaxies, and more we […]
Rock salt is great at keeping roads free of ice, but using it over the long term poses serious dangers.
They were a little optimistic in 1912, but they understood that adding carbon to the atmosphere has side effects.
Nanoscale mesh e-skin can turn your skin into a wearable display.
Cephalopods like the octopus could have originated from outside of our solar system, possibly coming to Earth as hitchhikers frozen inside comets and meteors.
As of October 1, the U.K. will make it illegal to sell puppies and kittens from third-party sources in a bid to end puppy mills and commercial breeding catteries, eliminate pet-shop sales, and rein in unscrupulous breeders.
Maybe the only chance they have to tell their story before they’re gone.
Scientists are supposed to reach their conclusions after doing research and weighing the evidence but, in economics, conclusions can come first, with economists supporting a thesis that fits their moral worldview.
Since 2016, the exoplanet Proxima b has been a top candidate in the search for alien life. But new findings show that a stellar flare might have scorched that hope entirely.
These chemicals are also widely used in products like clothing, shoes, wrappers and furniture, to make them more stain-resistant, waterproof and/or nonstick.
The James Webb Space Telescope could mean finding a human-sustaining planet in another galaxy.