As the Earth continues to heat up thanks in large part to the effects of scientifically-proven human factors, our little blue sphere’s collection of ice …
Humans, generally speaking, are incredibly interested in the potential existence of intelligent alien life. The idea that an alien civilization exists somewhere in the cosmos …
If you happen to live in the western United States, and were hanging around outside early Tuesday night, there’s a really good chance you saw something …
When it comes to creepy robots, it’s impossible to compete with Boston Dynamics. The company, which was famously bought then sold by Google, has always …
For such a tiny little world, Pluto sure has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. After being demoted from “planet” to “dwarf planet,” …
NASA and the European Space Agency already have countless proposed and tentative plans to further explore Mars and potentially even land humans on the planet …
Mars is one of the most studied and scrutinized of all the planets in our Solar System, and space agencies have sent probes, orbiters, and …
You’ve been hearing a lot of news about exoplanets recently thanks to increasingly powerful skywatching hardware capable of detecting worlds at an incredible distance from …
Modern medicine can completely change someone’s life for the better, but only if they’re actually taking their prescriptions like they’re supposed to. Ensuring that a …
With winter fast approaching, there aren’t many weekends left to enjoy the outdoors without a heavy coat and a warm cup of coffee, which is …
That terrible Hollywood disaster movie Geostorm fell flat on its face at the box office and got so many things wrong when it comes to …
The human brain is truly a wonder, and nature has honed it to be an incredibly efficient tool for processing information and hanging on to …
Being shipwrecked on a tropical island might sound like an interesting (or even fun) adventure, but archaeologists are discovering that the reality was much different …
25 years ago, 1,700 of the world’s leading scientists issued a grim “warning to humanity.” Within, they explained that human activities were doing serious, irreversible …
An incredibly powerful type of fungal parasite that is known to turn ants into actual zombies is actually even more devious than was first thought. …
Crab and arthropods in general are often pretty creepy all on their own, but when you see one ruthlessly murdering (and eating!) a creature you …
When the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth many millions of years ago it spelled doom for countless species, while allowing many others (like mammals) the …
Not many people have been swallowed up by lava and survived — in fact, the number has to be somewhere around zero, if I had …
If you think the emergence of man was an inevitability, think again. The massive asteroid that struck Earth and triggered the mass extinction of the …
We may not live in a Star Wars-esque age of light speed travel and Death Stars, but that isn’t stopping the US military from turning …
Stem cell research has been a hotly debated issue for years already, but groundbreaking work utilizing stem-cell-grown human brain tissue is about to challenge even …
We humans like to pretend we know a lot about space and the various objects that we’ve observed in it, but at the end of …
Antarctica is a weird place. Scientists have long studied the behavior of its massive ice sheets and the land underneath them in the hopes of …
The idea of small groups of humans having control over some of the most powerful weapons ever to be built is scary, but it’s the …
Even if you have only cursory knowledge of the planets in our Solar System, you know that Earth is on the smaller end of the …
AI is everywhere. It’s in search engines and chat bots, and even built right into your next smartphone, and it promises to help make your …
Mankind has sent fancy robots and probes to a whole bunch of our nearest planetary neighbors and found nothing to suggest life exists (or ever …
There are lots of crazy people walking around on our planet, and even if they honestly believe some of the things they say — that …
Research into the conditions under which life originally formed has given scientists a lot of tantalizing clues in recent years, but a new discovery made …
When you see the skeleton of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex there are a number of things that pop out at you. The massive jaws lined …
