On Earth, microbial growth is common in lava tubes no matter the location and climate, whether it’s ice-volcano interactions in Iceland or hot, sand-floored lava tubes in Saudi Arabia.
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As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing Earth to spiral outward in its orbit. Will that cool the Earth down, or will other effects win out?
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The outer planets’ clouds hide the weirdness within.
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A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
The costs of such an endeavor would be extremely high, while the potential payoffs would be uncertain.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
All across the Universe, planets come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, compositions, and temperatures. And most have rain and snow.
Data from the Zhurong rover suggests the Red Planet was wet more recently than we thought.
Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.
Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.