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Pay your bills, slip through security, and take a train, all without fumbling through your wallet.   

A very small person asks a very big question: why aren’t the moons of gaseous planets also made of gas?

Could there be a massive, giant planet beyond Neptune? Here’s what the science says… for now. “Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one […]

A small, icy planet with a weirdly elliptical orbit has been discovered beyond Pluto.

Even if you have a problem with the messenger, you still need to heed the message. “Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left […]

And when you demand ‘perfectly identical,’ just how high of a bar are you setting? “Lives are snowflakes — unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another […]

With a whole-planet comparison, you’d never confuse the two worlds. But from their surfaces, telling them apart is harder than you’d think. Image credit: NASA. Think you can tell the red […]

This mission will also help us better understand the core of our and other terrestrial planets, too.   

From a “watery past” to water today! “If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they’ve been to Mars, you […]

Beyond climate change, ice ages or even the death of our Sun, the cosmic dance continues for ages. Here’s how it will truly end. “The way to love anything is to […]

Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, may spout water vapor miles into space, says NASA, making it possible to better determine whether its vast underwater oceans support extraterrestrial life.

Farewell Moon, we barely knew you. Bill Nye knows the Moon is moving away from Earth 1.48 inches per year. Will it keep drifting further away, and what happens to Earth when it does?

A new mapping method corrects not only for visual distortions but also for cultural ones.

These are some of the strangest human inventions.

You know how bright the full Moon is. Well, from the Moon, how would the ‘full Earth’ compare? “I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted […]

Animal-assisted therapy is increasingly being used nowadays. But does this practice make an impact?   

Several studies confirm that 2016 is shaping up to be the hottest year ever.

Geneticists and cave paintings identify a lost species they puckishly name the “Higgs bison.”

After nearly 20 years in orbit around Saturn, Cassini prepares to say goodbye. “All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, […]

Might Armageddon come not from an asteroid or a comet, but by something completely unseen altogether? “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what […]

Comet-like tail, X-rays and more discovered at Solar System’s edge. “Maybe some people don’t feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.” –Lydia Netzer […]

A lack of resources may have made the route once considered likely impossible.   

We take for granted how much the Moon does for Earth, but not all of the changes would be bad. “If we get rid of the moon, women, those menstrual cycles […]

Rutin can increase the number of calories burned in a workout.   

As the US prepares for a change in power, Professor Sanford Levinson says dialogue that was formerly bound to people’s inner monologue has been “liberated” into the public space.

A massive chart of humankind’s 113 spacecraft so far and where they’ve gone.

A group of expert geologists declared that a new epoch influenced by human impact has begun.

Oakland and San Francisco recently passed taxes on sugar beverages. Is the entire nation next? 

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?

Up to 70 per cent of runners are injured every year. Is this really necessary?