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 […]
Search Results
You searched for: ice
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 […]
The same 32 symbols show up in prehistoric European cave art.
“Hothouse Earth” is basically a self-sustaining engine of warming and carbon. Ummm…
Scientists at NASA are currently developing methane-creating robots to overcome this challenge.
While the web of dark matter (purple) might seem to determine cosmic structure formation on its own, the feedback from normal matter (red) can severely impact galactic scales. Both dark […]
The Nazis actively searched for Atlantis, seeing it as important to their mythology.
A new report from the American Meteorological Society shows that Earth’s atmosphere had the highest levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2017 than it’s had in the past 800,000 years.
In July of 2018, there were 11 wildfires occurring north of the Arctic Circle. That’s more than ever before.
Happy birthday to Pluto, discovered on this day in 1930. Pluto, first discovered in 1930, was no more than a distant dot in our most powerful telescopes. Clyde Tombaugh’s original images […]
Barbara J. King on animal emotions, anthropomorphism, and the future of the planet.
▸
with
If confirmed by future observations, this would be the most significant discovery of liquid water on Mars yet.
Hello, tipping point.
Multi-messenger astronomy further widens our window to the universe.
By 2020, recyclable lids that look like sippy-cups will be de rigueur.
Carl Sagan—who first coined the term—was tempted to call them “star-tar.”
The two planets most suited for habitability had very different fates. At last, scientists know why. Imagine the early days of our Solar System, going back billions of years. The Sun […]
Star production peaked three billion years after the Big Bang.
New software makes lab work go much faster—and hastens the search for cures.
The meaning—and range—of “habitable” goes much farther than we once thought.
With over 100 active science missions, from the Hubble Space Telescope to studying ice shifts on Earth, working at NASA can be a dream come true for any astronomer or astrophysicist.
▸
with
Neither one reflects the other; they’re both blue for entirely different reasons. If you’ve ever been curious about the world you live in, you’ve probably wondered why the sky is […]
Amongst other things, you can’t get away with handling a salmon suspiciously in Scotland.
It’s exotic, incredibly cold stuff.
Fill up your gas tank, no matter how hot it is, with confidence and safety from anywhere on Earth. For most of the northern hemisphere, summer is in full swing. Along […]
Starbucks isn’t accepting bitcoin—yet.
A rare counter-example to the flood of Temperance maps, this Prohibition-era chart celebrates alcohol in its many forms
A new study shows that environment, not genetics, determines behavioral patterns of eating in youth that persist throughout life.
Our outer Solar System, from Jupiter to Neptune, isn’t unique after all. In the early 1990s, scientists began detecting the first planets orbiting stars other than the Sun: exoplanets. The easiest […]
Throughout history, anarchists have been responsible for bombings and assassinations, including some very recent ones.