There’s never been a more important time to be aware of how the fate of the Earth depends on us. “We only have one planet that serves as an example and […]
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Why Saturn’s Iapetus has three great mysteries… and we’ve only solved one of them. “The dance between darkness and light will always remain — the stars and the moon will always need the […]
Just because we know it’s real doesn’t mean it’s easy to create in a lab. “For me the best answer is not in words but in measurements.” –Elena Aprile Atoms, molecules, […]
Could life on Earth have spawned more than once?
Just like alcohol, nicotine and other narcotics, sugar tickles our dopamine receptors in just the right way, inspiring our brain’s reward system. How will this end for us?
If humans are going to explore the solar system, we need to figure out how to live in space. The best way to figure that out is on the Moon — and you can help. Here’s how.
As driverless cars gain increasing acceptance among the public, what social values, industries, and activities will be displaced, or even made as obsolete as car ownership itself?
It seems inevitable that there will be a Mars colony, but the path there won’t be easy. There are two key challenges ahead that will push innovation.
Like a culinary canary in the coal mine, coleslaw can tell you everything you need to know about a restaurant.
Most amusement parks like Disney and Six Flags pride themselves on being family friendly attractions. These parks do not.
When he becomes President in January, Donald Trump will likely have another lawsuit on his hands. This time, from a group of 21 American children.
When the Viking landers ran their three experiments looking for life, one came up positive. That’s still a mystery. “This suggests a robust biological response. These analyses support the interpretation that […]
Psychologists suggests tactics for confronting offensive speech.
Only in 1992 was science able to calculate the remotest part of the ocean
Can the art of communal bathing teach us to be more social animals?
What kind of person could withstand a trip to Mars and back? NASA and Hi-SEAS is trying to find out.
Driverless cars are nothing short of a revolution – not a technological revolution, but a social one, that will determine how fast we can accept, adapt and trust these new systems to change our lives.
Driverless cars may be borne out of science fiction, but they are fast becoming realities on tomorrow’s roadways. The transition from driver to robot is nothing short of a revolution. Not a technological revolution, but a social one, that will determine how fast we can accept, adapt and trust these new systems to change how and where we live, work, play and interact with each other.
Thanksgiving may already be a week behind us, but there’s always something to be thankful for. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful […]
And what you can do to fight it. “October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every […]
And are likely due to subsurface water, geysers and an incredible process. “Have you entered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?” –Job […]
A gallery of high-quality images sent to earth by Curiosity Rover from Mars.
Plants can even ward off invaders through “Earth’s natural internet.”
The answer is larger than you might think, and applies in some shocking ways! “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way […]
Manu Prakash is one of the MacArthur Foundation’s 2016 Fellows, and here’s why.
The present story is only the beginning; there’s a revolution coming! “Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants […]
And the story of how the greatest act of WWII sabotage stopped it. “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer In the 1930s, as Europe stood on […]
Bill Nye laughs in the face of the robo-pocalypse. Or more accurately, he laughs at those who worry that AI might run amok. If we build robots that want to kill us, he says, we can just unplug them.
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Three simple questions; an amazing story that goes way beyond Einstein! “Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system ‘at rest’ with the definite, constant velocity V independent of […]
The ability to desalinate water on an industrial scale would change the world, says Bill Nye the Science Guy, bringing fresh water to populations all over the globe that currently going without.
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An awful op-ed about how science is no different than other disciplines misses some fundamental facts. “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” […]