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Heather Heying knows that a true understanding of the world comes not from the answers, but the questions as well.
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Fundamental physics must reconsider its current path and value system.
“One small step for man” costs a lot of money. Who’s going to help pay the bill for the next bout of space exploration?
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Michelle Thaller from NASA examines if it’s possible to put up a giant disk to block out the sun’s rays and cool Earth.
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Current physician and former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski knows a thing or two about out-of-this-world success.
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Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it’s practiced today.
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To spur action on climate change, we need a story of mythical proportions.
Thanks to genetic engineering, a child can now have three parents. But is it a good idea?
Digging deeper into last week’s revelations about the Red Planet.
After you die, some things in your body keep on ticking, this video reveals.
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In a major announcement today, NASA reveals that its rover found organic compounds and methane.
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Most of us show humility in the face of Nature as we flirt with the unknown.
Astronauts aren’t floating in space, they’re free falling—and so are you. Here’s the amazing science behind so-called zero gravity.
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Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, founders of the popular blog, have landed at ORBITER.
The quest for the cause of the cosmos is an ancient quest. Neil Turok offers a fascinating new theory.
Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest scientific and analytical minds of our time, says NASA’s Michelle Thaller.
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Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.
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Podcast host Robert Wright’s lively conversation with the Harvard psychologist.
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Spirituality plays a different ballgame than science, so the language used in either of them doesn’t often match up to the other side. This, says religious teacher Rob Bell, creates a lot of conflicts.
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Is the world actually flat? Let’s ask someone who has some actual perspective on the subject… from space.
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Sending a tiny spaceship to the nearest habitable planet at 20% of the speed of light? No problem, says theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.
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What can cause a ripple in both space and time? Neutron stars colliding. And what can observe that phenomenon? A two-mile-long laser.
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Miles away from the site of the site of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea, eight teams raced skiing robots down a mountain for a chance to win $10,000.
Space is not the place to put waste, as it turns pretty much anything into a high-velocity projectile capable of causing incredible damage.
Environmental concerns have caused some to opt-out of reproduction, both to help the planet and to protect their would-be children.
Need more astronomical phenomena in your life? We’ve got you covered.
What if entanglement also occurs across time? Is there such a thing as temporal nonlocality?
The bacteria C. metallidurans is able to take trace amounts of gold and copper and turn it into teeny tiny gold nuggets a few nanometers in size.