“Hothouse Earth” is basically a self-sustaining engine of warming and carbon. Ummm…
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Maybe, but that probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. Of all the unsolved puzzles in the Universe, perhaps the most confounding is the dark matter problem. If we look […]
It’s not just a case of “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
In his final years, Martin Luther King, Jr. become increasingly focused on the problem of poverty in America.
We know a lot about what else is out there, but we still don’t know everything. In the quest for life in the Universe, it makes sense to look at […]
Is it “perverseness,” the “death drive,” or something else?
What do we see from watching birds move across the country?
New York Times reporter Melissa Chan outlined in a Twitter thread how authoritarian governments strategically destroy the reputations of journalists they dislike.
Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, one day before the Senate is set to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated 53-year-old Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court, a pick that could establish a solid conservative majority in the court for years to come.
Jamie Aten is an expert on the science of dealing with Really Bad Things.
A wealthy team doesn’t automatically make for a successful team.
What should a black hole look like? Our theoretical predictions are about to meet our first observations. In science, there’s no moment more exciting than when you get to confront […]
Brett M. Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, one of three women who’s accused him of sexual assault, are due to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
It marks a first for the U.S., where some 49,000 people died from opioids in 2018.
This is what we’ve learned from first object ever discovered to enter our Solar System from interstellar space. Billions of years ago, our Solar System was an extraordinarily different place […]
The NASA probe has ventured beyond our solar system.
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The Planck length is a lot smaller than anything we’ve ever accessed. But is it a true limit? If you wanted to understand how our Universe operates, you’d have to examine […]
Well-lit cities and towns are essential to public safety. That doesn’t have to ruin the night sky. For most of us here on planet Earth, navigating the world at night is […]
We keep hearing that Scandinavia has perfected socialism, but is that true?
The lawsuit claims the administration violated the First Amendment when it revoked the press credentials of reporter Jim Acosta.
The new offices will be built in New York’s Long Island City and Viriginia’s Arlington.
Anatomy and physiology professor David Harper claims a recent study in The Lancet is flawed.
A single thought experiment reveals a paradox. Could quantum gravity be the solution? Sometimes, if you want to understand how nature truly works, you need to break things down to […]
Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it’s practiced today.
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… and also the return of the (mini) Mac.