A new NASA report shakes up lunar geology.
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Three scientists publish a paper proving that Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth.
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“I was so moved when I saw the cells stir,” said 90-year-old study co-author Akira Iritani. “I’d been hoping for this for 20 years.”
From Godzilla to The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, it’s everywhere.
Two new reports highlight the stark realities of the modern workforce.
The billionaire entrepreneur predicts the rise of technology will soon force society to rethink the modern work week.
It’s almost time for spring cleaning.
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If you think about the way a gravitational wave detector works, you might encounter a paradox. Here’s the solution. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history […]
In 2008, Elon Musk explained which of history’s tech geniuses was his role model.
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If we restrict ourselves to looking for extraterrestrial life on Earth-like worlds, we might miss it entirely. When we think about life out there in the Universe, far beyond the […]
There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank.
And if the data is good enough, we can determine that it’s accelerating directly, too, silencing the last remaining doubters. If you want to understand what the Universe is made […]
If we ruin the night sky too severely, ground-based astronomy could suffer tremendously. Here’s why space is no replacement. There is an existential threat to astronomy as we know it, […]
The billionaire is also inviting eight artists along with him. It would be the first time a civilian crew has participated in a mission to the moon.
The meaning—and range—of “habitable” goes much farther than we once thought.
A new study claims that dark energy is changing with time. Here’s what it would mean, if true. For the past generation, we’ve recognized that our Universe is a particularly dark […]
Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
Around Halloween in 2015, astronomers discovered ‘The Goblin’. Now, it’s leading us to what some call Planet X.
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Breakthrough Starshot is moving ahead with an audacious vision for space exploration.
A recent headline claimed they could. But if gamma-rays are just a form of light, don’t they have to travel at light-speed? There’s an ultimate speed limit in the Universe: […]
Was it a real thing? And the Wise Men? Or are they just myths?
Hearing-related problems are on the rise.
We assume that life is ubiquitous in the Universe. But what if it’s just us? When it comes to the question of extraterrestrial life, humans optimistically assume the Universe is prolific. […]
The definition of a kilogram will now be fixed to Planck’s constant, a fundamental part of quantum physics.
In his final years, Martin Luther King, Jr. become increasingly focused on the problem of poverty in America.
From 4 billion miles away, it says a lot about the meaning of time.
The NASA probe has ventured beyond our solar system.
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