Suppose an alien civilization discovers Earth and decides to investigate. Before it chooses a landing site or considers how ...

Triton is no ordinary moon. With an impossibly young surface and active cryovolcanoes, Neptune’s giant moon has baffled ...

Gut health and muscle health are often thought of as separate concerns. The first brings to mind eating fibre and probiotics, ...

This past week, the Supreme Court addressed a case involving a request from two oil companies to drop a lawsuit by two local governments blaming them for climate change damages. The companies are ...

Imagine you are sitting in a nine-hour meeting and your vote will help decide if a new cancer screening test gets approved in your country. The test under consideration breaks the mould: from a simple ...

If you want to go to space for any significant duration of time, you should be prepared to suffer from a number of maladies. The zero-gravity (or microgravity) environment of space is catastrophic, in ...

(via NOVA PBS) Space warfare is no longer science fiction. Explore the tech behind it all— from laser "dazzling" systems that ...

Physicists have spent generations chasing a theory that could unify the laws of the universe. So much of the cosmos stays ...

Across mammals, increased species size typically means a longer lifespan, ranging from only a couple of years for mice to almost 200 years for some whales. However, when we look within species, we ...

What we know about human history is only a fraction of the full story. Much of the rest is like dark matter, invisible to us.

Can adding every positive whole number really give you -1/12? We explore how physicists extract meaningful finite values from infinite sums, and how this strange mathematical tech ...

Researchers have discovered key biomarkers that are strongly linked to all-cause mortality and identified four measurements with independent predictive power. This paper opens with a discussion of a ...