How can something so hot be so cool? Here’s something to cogitate on: the things on this planet that we...
He’s gonna do his best. NASA has been assembling a new Mars rover to replace the lost Opportunity for a...
It’s not an animal in the traditional sense. Animals need to breathe oxygen. I breathe, you breathe, we all breathe...
Never a bad time to go into orbit. We went to the moon in 1969, and I’ll always remember that...
Someone put this thing on an Iron Maiden album. Thanks primarily to Jurassic Park, the tyrannosaurus-rex is well-known as one...
It’s like dodgeball! Really, really big dodgeball. One of the classic science fiction fears is that a celestial object (asteroid,...
A glacier the size of Florida is warming up. In the icy south of the Earth is the Western Antarctic...
D’aww, look it this little wiggler. Hemiscylliidae, or walking sharks, are already a known thing. Before you freak out, let...
Cosmic chocolate chip-flavor. Something we Earthlings don’t often realize about living in space is that there are a lot of...
So tiny, yet so graceful. A new species of dinosaur fossil has been uncovered in China’s Jehol Province. Its small,...
It’s way less creepy than it sounds. All building materials are biological, broadly speaking. Wood, clay, glass; even steel originally...
Anything’s better than letting just sit there. Nuclear power produces a metric whoa-ton of energy, which is great. What’s less...
