Doomsday prophesies have never once come to pass, but they’ve never had science on their side like this before. Every year, the Earth completes an orbital revolution around the Sun, returning […]
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The project involves a high-altitude balloon, tons of tiny particles and knowledge gained from a violent volcano eruption in 1991.
Australia’s two largest supermarkets led the ban, which has so far prevented some 1.5 billion plastic bags from entering the environment.
Is consciousness just a showdown between your beliefs and perceptions?
The first planets were only gas. The second included rocky ones, but life wasn’t possible. Here’s how we finally got there. Here in the Universe today, potentially habitable planets are practically […]
For the Pluto fans, another sad state of affairs: your favorite world won’t make it. Nothing on Earth lasts forever, and that’s a truth that even extends to all the objects […]
A new study asks the question: can a massive solar and wind farm be implemented in the Sahara? According to at least one of the authors, it’s possible to create these solar and wind farms with technology available right now.
The controversial herbicide is everywhere, apparently.
Moving from HOT to HAT, a dazzling new acoustic technology.
Our planet is rare, precious, and fragile. It’s up to all of us to be its steward. With the advent of rocketry and spaceflight, our cosmic perspective changed forever. The very […]
Humans blame cats for killing birds, but our buildings are far worse.
Even if we don’t destroy ourselves, we always have the Universe to contend with. Wiping out all life on Earth is hard, but causing mass extinctions is easy. The 1991 eruption […]
Psilocybin doesn’t just make you trip; it can have lasting effects on how you see the world.
After Kepler but before James Webb, TESS is preparing astronomers for the coming exoplanet revolution. There are always new discoveries and achievements occurring in science, and certain fields have experienced […]
All the prayers in the world to the Flying Spaghetti Monster probably won’t help.
A historical look into the tipple that toppled the British Empire and kick-started America.
A new study from the University of Oxford reveals what foods are, and are not, healthy for the environment.
The unmanned lander will help scientists learn more about the interior of Mars and the development of rocky planets.
Quantum particles are mysterious and difficult to track down, but neutrinos may be the most elusive quantum particles yet. The facilities designed to observe neutrinos are feats of engineering, and what they hope to uncover is profound.
It’s a little scary out there, folks.
There’s a big difference between evidence and wishful thinking. The story of how life arose on Earth is one of the great mysteries of modern science. We know, in many […]
How does money stay valuable? It just keeps growing. But is that healthy?
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It’s found everywhere we know how to look, and just might be nature’s perfect fuel. Here’s how to harness it. Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in all of […]
This is an extremely rare find; only three similar fossils have been found in the world.
Delay, deny and deflect were the strategies Facebook has used to navigate scandals it’s faced in recent years, according to the New York Times.
Pfizer’s partnerships strengthen their ability to deliver vaccines in developing countries.
Finding the ingredients for life is a very different prospect than finding the products of life. Perhaps the greatest quest in science today is to find life that originated beyond Earth. […]
A Scottish inventor has created a water bottle that could save ocean life the world over. But will the plastic industry let it happen?