This summer, NASA’s Perseverance rover will set out on a voyage to the edge of the Jezero crater on Mars. The goal of the mission is to learn more about...
Patrick Whittle, Associated Press Updated 3:07 pm CDT, Tuesday, July 21, 2020 The Orca is headed back to the waters of New England, but this time, its mission isn't to hunt...
A Mars mission from the UAE just launched to the Red Planet. The Hope Probe will orbit Mars for a full Martian year, studying the planet’s atmosphere as well as...
Partly because people think of experts as oracles, as opposed to experimenters and exploiters of trial and error, there’s a presumption that either the experts know what is the best...
On a June morning in 1908, above a sleepy forest in the Siberian Taiga plush with larches, spruces, and black bears, something flashed so bright and hot in the sky...
Resume Reading — The Trouble with Counting Alien Civilizations Close You've read 1 of 2 free monthly articles. Learn More. Close Life on Earth is a sketchy guide to intelligent life...
Dear Bella,I’m going to imitate Rudyard Kipling and tell you a just-so story. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the world 100 years ago. He wrote The...
I get constantly asked if I could please comment on other people’s theories of everything. That could be Garrett Lisi’s E8 theory or Eric Weinstein’s geometric unity or Stephen Wolfram’s...
The COVID-19 pandemic was some epidemiologist’s nightmare when Adam Kucharski was writing Rules of Contagion. Released this week, the book, which includes brief mentions of the encroaching COVID-19 storm, draws...
World War II bomber planes returned from their missions riddled with bullet holes. The first response was, not surprisingly, to add armor to those areas most heavily damaged. However, the...
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