Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia.
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
Wyoming’s roads are nine times deadlier than Ireland’s. California’s road safety is on par with Romania’s.
Peer coaching can play a key role in building resilient, high-performing teams, while allowing remote workers to connect with one another from afar.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Like some cold poison creeping up our veins, there’s a frisson in the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
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A new study of Martian dust gives insights into the ancient Martian climate. The findings hint at a wetter world.
It’s time to put on your listening hat.
At least 33 cities are sinking by more than 1 cm a year.
The plant-like sea creatures contain a molecule that improves memory, learning, and even hair quality, according to a new study in mice.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
It has no moving parts and could allow us to tap into renewable energy year round.
Suppose that fetuses are persons. Since pregnant people are too, how should conflicts between them be settled?
The observable Universe is 92 billion light-years in diameter. These pictures put just how large that is in perspective.
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn’t mean CGI is always used to good effect.
Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
Only 1% of corn grown is the U.S. is the type that people eat.
In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.
Easily distracted? Try a “distractibility delay.”
A doctor once joked that statins will be added to the water supply. Humor aside, the data shows that statins really are a “wonder drug.”
Willpower alone likely isn’t enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.