Thinning forests in the Western United States can save billions of gallons of water per year and improve conservation efforts.
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Observations have been ruined; scientific satellites with the right-of-way have had to alter course. Here’s a how-to guide to doing better. In any field of business or industry, the prevailing rule […]
On the eve of receiving the Templeton Prize, Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his life.
A recent Colorado study of ER visits is alarming medical professionals.
What happens to a person’s identity when they are forced to play a hypermasculine role just to survive?
A new study in Spain displays the powerful effects of empathy.
We’re too afraid to voice our complaints, and for good reason — it often doesn’t go well.
It shows Europe divided into two bafflingly unfamiliar blocs – what do red and blue stand for?
Peaceful protest in the face of Putin.
The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.
Satellite movie shows clouds of carbon monoxide drifting over South America.
Apollo 11’s moon landing inspired many to reach for the impossible.
Even though it was the crowning achievement of Einstein’s career, he was only a small part of the full story. If you were a physicist in the early 20th century, there […]
It’s exotic, incredibly cold stuff.
Our planet is rare, precious, and fragile. It’s up to all of us to be its steward. With the advent of rocketry and spaceflight, our cosmic perspective changed forever. The very […]
It marks a major shift in the government’s battle against the opioid crisis.
Different methods of measuring the expansion rate give different values. This one linchpin is key. In science, different methods of measuring the same properties should yield the same results. The expanding […]
The relentless sun makes life in the Sahara almost unbearable. But could it also be its greatest resource?
But we already knew that, didn’t we?
100+ years ago, General Relativity came along, and Einstein gave the Universe a cosmological constant. Here’s why that was a mistake. Back in the 17th century, Isaac Newton put forth the […]
Less than 50 percent of Americans say they’re “extremely proud” to be American.
FDA guidelines say men can’t donate blood if they’ve had sex with another man in the past 12 months.
The remote volcano Raikoke just erupted after nearly 100 years of silence. Here’s why it matters. On June 22, 2019, a volcano that had been dormant and inactive for nearly a […]
While the blockbuster franchise might have given us a distorted view of science’s capabilities to address species extinction, new research might come close to “resurrecting” lost species’ DNA.
Radio-frequency signals can be used to track peoples’ movements in their own homes.
‘For decades, all the major economists … they all believed that we would be working less and less’, Rutger Bregman told Davos
The film becomes the story of the making of the film. From his Monty Python days to now, Don Quixote is a metaphor for Terry Gilliam’s whole career, and for his 30 year project of making a film about a film about the knight of the woeful countenance. We talk about Muppets, time, and basically everything else two humans can talk about.