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It’s an incredibly exciting time to be alive, especially if you’re an explorer. We may have been to almost every point on the globe, but there is so much left to understand.
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A neural network was trained to create its own cookbook recipes, resulting in some strange and unappetizing concoctions.
It’s not the ice that turns Greenland white, but the lack of data
Before we go venturing off to another star to look for life, why not look here? “If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than […]
The highest concentration in Europe of places named after saints? Galicia, in Spain.
Even our scientific heroes can’t be right about everything. Let’s learn the lessons that they never did. In the 1960s, a young theoretical physicist named Stephen Hawking rose to prominence as […]
Ice finally met fire on last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, and their first conversation proved a perfect case study in the distance between power and reality.
Scientists are about to set new standards for the kilogram, ampere, mole, and kelvins.
Could it simply be pleasure for its own sake?
Everyone loves Europa, says Neil deGrasse Tyson. Why? It’s a strong bet for finding life in our solar system, and it’s even more amazing because it breaks all the rules.
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Thanks to NASA’s HiRISE camera, prepare to see Mars in a whole new light. Twelve years ago, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched. The descent of Mars Science Laboratory (i.e., the Curiosity […]
Australian scientists discover how complex life first appeared on Earth – one of the “greatest mysteries of science”.
New research on Uranus’ magnetosphere could help scientists learn about distant systems, and refine the ways they search for alien life.
A company plans to transform the world’s most arid region by bringing icebergs from Antarctica.
Researchers believe they have enough evidence to support the “kelp highway hypothesis.”
And super-Earth, mini-Neptunes, and super-Jupiters aren’t among them. You’ll be surprised to learn why. Just 30 years ago, if you had asked an astronomer if there were planets around other stars […]
Lazy but want to stay in shape? You may soon be able to have it both ways, thanks to a new pill in testing from GlaxoSmithKline.
What was going on in the world of health and strange bodily functions?
In the aftermath of everything we’ve learned about what’s in the Universe, we can make much better estimates of how many alien civilizations are out there. In 1961, scientist Frank Drake […]
A new study discovers why whales grew to be the largest animals on our planet.
An increase in carbon dioxide is not doing good things to our produce. Or bodies.
The European Geosciences Union predicts that over 70% of glacier volume in the Everest region could be lost by 2100. One man has engineered a solution so that life in these regions can go on.
Are we looking for life in all the wrong ways, like SETI with smoke signals? A little over 80 years ago, humanity first began broadcasting radio and television signals with enough […]
The Cassini-Huygens telescope has spent the better part of the last two decades finding out more about our galaxy than we could possibly dream of. Here’s 14 of the coolest things it has found out.
Unpredictable winters? Seasons that don’t line up? It’s possible with the right configuration, says physics. “Lord of Light! Come to us in our darkness. We offer you these false gods. Take […]
The discovery of the first-ever asteroid to arrive from interstellar space is full of lessons for us all. On October 19th, astronomers discovered an objectunlike any other we’d seen before: a […]
Did ExxonMobil Engage in a Climate Change Cover Up? Harvard Researchers Uncover A Shocking Discovery
The world’s largest oil and gas company may be its own worst enemy.
Hans Monderman believed that societies could make roads safer by making drivers more uncertain, and therefore alert.