Science
Terraforming Mars: Will It Happen? Is It Even Possible?
Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget...
Schrodinger’s Cat, and How Death Doesn’t Add Up in Quantum Mechanics
After escaping the Nazis by minutes and then getting...
Study Shows Why Cold Water Plunges May Keep You Young — But Be Careful
My father always insisted on swimming in mountain tarns...
The Infinite Weirdness of Black Holes, and What Happens When You Fall Into One
Everything that falls into a black hole falls in...
Radioactive Dust From The Cold War Still Blows Around Europe
In March 2022, a Saharan dust storm turned skies...
Mega-Tsunami In Greenland Echoed Around the World for Nine Days
In September 2023, a colossal landslide in East Greenland...
New Study Finds Bering Land Bridge Was Really More of a Swamp
Why did the woolly mammoth cross the road?
Or more...
Avalanche in China Causes Mysterious Flashing Lights
Blink and you'll miss it: two momentary blue flashes...
Bright Lights on Surf Gear Deter Shark Attacks, Study Finds
There's an old truism that's well worth remembering if...
A Look at the Next Two Billion Years on Planet Earth
In his seminal work of popular geology called Basin...
Tibetan Elevation Causing Human Evolution in Real Time
Fans of mountaineering likely know all about altitude sickness....
Listen to the Weird, Scary Sound of the Earth’s Magnetic Field Flipping
About 41,000 years ago, the Earth's magnetic field suddenly...
Nuclear Bomb Can Deflect Future Killer Asteroid, Scientists Discover
It's a bad month for any malicious asteroids out...
Natural Wonders: The Rainbow Swamps of the American South
Swamps and wetlands get a bad rap, and not...
Mysterious Sounds From The Mariana Trench Explained
Underwater surveys picked up mysterious "bio-twang" sounds from the...
New Research Suggests Ancient Earth Had Rings
The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded...
Pigeon Missiles and Breathing Through Your Anus: The 2024 Ig Nobel Prize
From stuffing pigeons into missiles to discovering that animals...
Our Moon Experienced Surprisingly Recent Volcanic Activity
Three tiny glass beads, from a sample of 3,000...
When It Comes to Backflips, Springtails are the Simone Biles of Arthropods. But They Don’t Stick the Landing
A tiny arthropod beats out all other creatures for...
