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Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023’s show will be magnificent!
Water on Mars is key for human survival on the Red Planet, not just for drinking but for growing food and making fuel and oxygen.
The most unique interloper into our Solar System has a natural explanation that fits perfectly — no aliens required.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
Take a closer look at the different types of reasoning you use every day.
Video cameras on city streets are only the most visible way your movements can be tracked.
Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.
“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”
We are still new at this.
Nagomi helps us find balance in discord by unifying the elements of life while staying true to ourselves.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
If you want to have foamy beer inside the comfort of your own home, you need to invest in a special nucleated glass.
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
Water is vital for life. Luckily for spacefaring humans, the solar system is full of it.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
The big-picture physics is simple – let gravity do its job.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.