NASA scientists have discovered three factors that influence Earth’s rotational wobble. Thankfully, while the Earth may wobble, it won’t fall down.
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While there’s plenty to be worried about, it’s important to remember that we’re making progress, too.
Most of us will still be alive then. Maybe.
The long-raging debate over hot coffee versus iced coffee may soon be settled with this news.
Zizek is on the left and dislikes political correctness. How does that work out?
Lovers deadlier than gangsters, first comprehensive Danish homicide study since 1970s shows
What foods are women reaching for? Carbs and fats and sweets.
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 […]
Not so long ago, we had better maps of Mars than of Antarctica. Now, Antarctica is the best-mapped continent in the world.
This is doubly worrisome on the heels of the recent UN climate change report, which gave humanity an urgent deadline to cut carbon emissions: just 12 years.
One often-neglected result of climate change is ocean acidification. If this process continues, we may start to see fewer fish and more jellyfish.
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.
The Earth is warming, and humans aren’t doing nearly enough to combat it. Could partially blocking the sunlight be the solution? It’s 2020, and not only is the Earth warmer […]
Even before MMA was a combat sport, it was a unique type of astronomy. Today, it’s opening up the Universe as never before. On February 24, 1987, a spectacular signal was […]
Scientific discovery often happens when you least expect it. But no one could’ve expected this. Imagine that you’re a scientist, going out on a limb to design and build an experiment […]
In order to build a second Earth, we need to look at how the first one was made.
Like Stevenson, Tolkien and other creators of fantasy worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin was a cartographer as well as a writer
From 4 billion miles away, it says a lot about the meaning of time.
The contestants would try to reach the end of the world, as they understand it.
No particle we know of can explain what’s going on.
This is what we’ve learned from first object ever discovered to enter our Solar System from interstellar space. Billions of years ago, our Solar System was an extraordinarily different place […]
“Slight,” applied to large populations, could still mean thousands of more boys.
The term socialism makes political discourse difficult. Should we do away with it altogether?
The ices and rock aren’t green, and neither are the tails. So where does a comet’s green color come from? Every so often, with extreme regularity, comets will plunge from beyond […]
New statistical analyses show that human-driven climate change is a virtual certainty.
A team of international scientists has pinpointed the cosmic source of a ghostly subatomic particle called a neutrino, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy.
Take one long stroll, four times a week.
In 1987, we detected neutrinos from another galaxy in a supernova. After a 30 year wait, we’ve found something even better. One of the great mysteries in science is determining not […]