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A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
We’re bored, and we’ve lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let’s fix that.
The first wave of the retailer’s anticipated automated delivery fleet hits the sidewalks.
The answer depends on how we choose to balance religious freedom, social inclusion, and the search for self-identity.
Fauna and flora refuse to go quietly into the Anthropocene.
It might seem puzzling, in a Universe bound by the speed of light, that this could be true. Here’s the science behind it. If you look out into the distant Universe, […]
The past 300,000 years occurs in the blink of a cosmic eye, but it’s meant everything to humanity. The history of humanity was anything but inevitable. Although the Universe created […]
The findings of the controversial study flew in the face of past research on ice gains in Antarctica.
The building material seems so ubiquitous — what can we use in its place?
Only 8 worlds make the astronomical cut as planets. Here are the 10 fascinating bodies that didn’t make it. Astronomically, bodies within the Solar System must achieve three criteria in order […]
As Game of Thrones ends, a revealing resolution to its perplexing geography.
Singing is universal. It is found in all cultures and, despite protestations of tone deafness, the vast majority of people can sing.
If they saw us as we were before the recent industrial revolution, would there be any reason to particularly care about us? All across the Universe, trillions of galaxies can be […]
A new computer model solves a pair of Jovian riddles.
Eric Weinstein says that we need to rethink the current scientific model to allow for more dreaming.
Documentary explores astrobiology, astronauts, and the awe of it all.
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The age of the Universe is only 13.8 billion years, but we know that protons survive much longer. Here’s how. Since the discovery of radioactivity in the 19th century, humanity has […]
It’s far earlier than most teams currently do.
He reminds us that meaning is wherever we choose to look.
“I share this honor with ancestors and teachers who inspired in me a love of poetry,” the 68-year-old poet said.
It’s not volcanic activity, and it’s definitely not from a fire. Mars, our red planetary neighbor, is a vastly different world from Earth. Mars and Earth, to scale, shows how much […]
Cryovolcanoes that eject ice instead of magma have been confirmed to exist on Ceres, which will help studying this formation on other planets and moons throughout the solar system.
We’d never flown past or imaged a small, isolated Kuiper belt object before. Here’s what we know so far. As 2018 ended and 2019 began, NASA’s New Horizons flew past its […]
How can we use the resources that are already on the Moon to make human exploration of the satellite as economical as possible?
Zizek is on the left and dislikes political correctness. How does that work out?