Science
Potential Signs of Life Found on Venus
Heavy emphasis on ‘potential.’ Out of every planet in our Solar System that we’d expect to be secretly housing life,...
Heavy emphasis on ‘potential.’ Out of every planet in our Solar System that we’d expect to be secretly housing life,...
A little bit of splicing, and you get Avatar plants. Bioluminescence is an ability possessed by several species of plants...
Out of the ocean and into a microscopic stomach. Plastic waste is one of the most pressing environmental concerns of...
Whale songs could teach us more than just whale habits. Have you ever heard a whale song in person? It’s...
“This is what all those hours of playing Tetris were for.” When you buy meat from the grocery store, it...
The ice-cold planet was discovered with a radio telescope. Most stars out there in the big dark emit tracible heat...
Reinvesting carbon into the fuel of tomorrow. I doubt I have to explain this, but vehicles of all kinds tend...
These ain’t your grandma’s milliseconds. You ever have one of those arguments growing up about who could name the biggest...
Like water off a duck’s back. The term “hydrophobic,” in the context of chemistry, refers to materials and chemicals that...
As the old saying goes, science isn’t about “why,” it’s about “why not?” Okay, I’m gonna lay some dime-store physics...
A special process restored a frog’s lost legs. An animal’s limbs are its lifelines; without them, a creature’s ability to...
Nature has no shortage of off-putting odors. The infamous Asian “Murder Hornets” are a consistent danger to worldwide honey bee...
Now that’s what I call a microbrewery. The process of brewing beer has always been something of an ersatz science...