Science

If humans plan to go to live and work beyond Earth someday, they will need technologies that allow for sustainable living in alien environments. This is especially true of Mars, which is extremely cold, dry, and subject to more radiation…

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Patric Seifert, a tropospheric researcher at the Leibniz Institute in Germany, there was a large increase in temperature shortly before the beginning of the Little Ice Age. Seifert doesn't…

To commemorate their greatest achievement to date with the spaceship, SpaceX has released a retrospective video of the SN8 soaring. This was the 12.5 km long hop test that took place on December 9, 2020, during which the SN8 prototype…

There are several major power grids around the world that have turned "green" to be on the verge of collapse, such as California and South Australia, the UK, and soon New York State.There's a post about Great Britain. Check out…

This is a picture of some of the islands that make up the nation of Cape Verde. While most of this group of ten islands are flat, some are very large: Fogo, Santa Antão, and São Nicolau. These three stand well above their compatriots,…

MSU researchers show how microbes can withstand a toxic metal and open the door for applications in recycling and remediation MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Research news PICTURE: THIS GEOBACTER CELL, WHICH LOOKS A BIT LIKE A GRAY…

Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi’s famous question, “Where Is Everybody?” Today, we examine the possibility that Earth hasn’t been visited by aliens because interstellar…

Dear Mr. Kwarteng, As one of your constituents, I wrote to you in June 2019 asking for an analysis of how on earth we could become a carbon free society by 2050, or whenever, given the monumental impossibility of building enough wind…

The oldest light in the universe is that of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This light was formed when the dense matter at the beginning of the universe finally cooled enough to become transparent. It has traveled billions of…

From the National Catholic Register The 2015 emails show how alarmed the Academy's Chancellor and some of its senior members were that a French scientist was attending a high-level Vatican summit and refused to invite him. Edward…