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Would you be cryo-preserved, knowing that if you survived, you would wake up hundreds of years later?   

According to environmental activist and author Bill McKibben, the third world war is well underway: it is a battle between human beings and a changing climate, and the humans are losing. But there’s still hope.

What kind of person could withstand a trip to Mars and back? NASA and Hi-SEAS is trying to find out.

If a prism can do it, why not the air? “It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more […]

A spiritual journey through the world beyond the grave, a hell, a purgatory, and a paradise is considered a masterwork of world literature.

New analyses of data gathered by the 2001 Mars Odyssey rover reveals that water molecules are bound up in the very soil of Mars.  

Our picture of life is going through a major shift. Ed Yong’s book I Contain Multitudes reveals that a genome generally doesn’t contain all the genes an organism needs. Symbiosis isn’t rare, it’s the rule. And we’re just the icing on life’s vast microbial cake. 

One researcher called the rule an “oversimplification.”  

Hundreds of years before climate change was a topic of discussion, monks and merchants kept records when lakes and rivers froze-over in the winter. These records show how the Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in altering the Earth’s climate.

Our love affair with profanity may be cultural or it may be neurological.

How Costa Rica achieved 100% renewable energy, and what it means.

Henry Rollins talks about how fear of winding up starting in The America drove his to his remarkable career.

You are already a cyborg! Here’s 10 ways you could merge even more with technology in the coming decade.

The most distant world ever imaged by fly-by reveals a richer terrain than anyone ever expected. “The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there […]

It’s worth listening to this self-described “Cranky old man” named Henry Rollins.

Languages the world over have words for love we all seem to understand.

The mission might set a precedent for exploring bodies of water on other moons and worlds as well.   

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 […]

Sean Curry takes aim at the rapidly evolving “gourmet” food industry that is warping our expectations, mindsets and first-world privilege to a scary new level. 

When meteors like these crash into a planet, there’s not a lot that can be done except watch the fireworks. 

Climate scientists warn the effects of global warming will cause storms to become more violent and sea levels to rise, and researchers predicts this will happen in the next 50 years.

Those white spots are still salt, but there’s so much more there! “Although impact processes dominate the surface geology on Ceres, we have identified specific color variations on the surface […]

We all know that sunny days make us happy — but did you know that they also make us gamble? And that warm weather leads to both less sexual activity and higher incidents of depression?

Why are some areas redder than others? It’s what happens to methane ice in the Sun. “This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the […]

The past is gone, the future not yet here, only the present is now. But why does it always flow the way it does for us? “Thus is our treaty written; […]

SETI is searching for the same signals humans were producing in the 1960s. Why wouldn’t aliens do better? “I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening […]

Like a culinary canary in the coal mine, coleslaw can tell you everything you need to know about a restaurant.  

A new DNA study of ancient mummies shows the complete extinction of first Americans after the arrival of Europeans and provides support for the Bering Strait Theory.

“Eureka!” is not always as powerful as “that’s what I thought!” “Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. […]

Nature is a delicate balancing act, says Bill Nye the Science Guy. It’s important we understand that the same system making Earth warm enough to live on is also driving climate change.