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There’s a big difference between evidence and wishful thinking. The story of how life arose on Earth is one of the great mysteries of modern science. We know, in many […]
The medal-winning Norwegian team had a most unusual explanation for why their speed skaters wore blue. Is there any science to back it up? Every four years, the Olympics come around, […]
If emissions don’t go down, there’s still an option for combatting global warming. We just have to effectively dim the Sun. Global climate change is one of the most pressing long-term […]
While millions catch a glimpse of a rare lunar event, NASA plans to shut down an orbiter whose purpose is to study the moon.
While the Olympics officially ended demonstration sports in 1992, a century of unique offerings made us rethink what athletic competition could be.
Could the upcoming Winter Olympics stand as a turning point, or will it be more of the same?
How ‘special’ are we for life to have survived and thrived the way it did? While there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, many with Earth-sized planets at […]
The Plasmodium Consortium seeks to get answers to America’s problems from slime molds.
We’ve all heard the number: 4.5 billion years. But how do we know, and how certain are we that the Earth and Sun are the same age? Billions of years ago, […]
The bad news, the possibility of epidemics. The good news, it may help slow global warming.
Trying to understand California aflame.
Sedna could be the very first known object from the Inner Oort Cloud. But time is running out to create and launch a mission. In 2003, scientists discovered an object beyond […]
At least 25% of the land that captures carbon is in the hands of indigenous people.
A new startup has a method for preserving a brain’s memories when it’s frozen for future uploading.
Last week, Cassini plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere. Here are the top 6 things we learned from it while it was alive. “Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the […]
Comprehensive DNA sequencing of artifacts reveals the yeti to be bears, mostly Himalayan brown bears.
A vanished people in a vanished place.
Philosophers like to present their works as if everything before it was wrong. Sometimes, they even say they have ended the need for more philosophy. So, what happens when somebody realizes they were mistaken?
Just because a distant body has ice doesn’t mean it’ll ever have liquid water.
For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.
The Planetary Habitability Laboratory has made up some periodic tables of all of the confirmed and suspected exoplanets so far, plus planetary bodies in our own solar system.
A study of moose skull sizes on a remote island shows the effects of global warming.
The ingredients for life are everywhere, but so far the only life we know of comes from Earth. Here’s how that might change. Ever since human beings first turned our eyes […]
Meteorites could be sowing life throughout the galaxy.
Diversity training programs can help make your organization a better place for people to work—improving employee engagement, productivity, and retention. A diverse workforce brings together many different perspectives, skills, and […]
Comparing NYC to Luxembourg, by way of iceberg A-68
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? Every moment that passes finds […]
NASA scientists are sifting through some of the last transmissions from Cassini. And what they’re finding are kittens. You read that right.