Nuclear War Would End Civilization in 72 Minutes
Lawrence M. Krauss, Quillette
As Chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from 2008-2018, I helped unveil the Doomsday Clock every year for a decade. That...
Lawrence M. Krauss, Quillette
As Chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from 2008-2018, I helped unveil the Doomsday Clock every year for a decade. That...
Steven Novella, Neurologica
Generally speaking the mainstream media does a terrible job of reporting anything in the realm of pseudoscience or the paranormal.
David L. Chandler, Astronomy
Recent papers by Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin, both astronomers at Caltech, are providing a whole new line of evidence in support of the existence of our...
Clare Watson, Sci Al
A year after all but ruling out the possibility, a pair of theoretical physicists from Japan and the...
Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine
In 1940, from a jailhouse in Rouen, France, André Weil wrote one of the most consequential letters of 20th-century mathematics. He was serving time for...
Susan Goldhaber, ACSH
On April 30, 2024, the EPA banned many uses of methylene chloride, a chemical widely used as a paint stripper and in industrial applications, based on an...
Kerry Hensley, AAS NOVA
Researchers estimate that the accretion disks of supermassive black holes could host millions of stars. When these stars evolve into black holes, they may reshape the...
Dan Falk, Nautilus
Some years ago, when he was still living in southern California, neuroscientist Christof Koch drank a bottle of Barolo wine while watching The Highlander, and...
Benji Jones, Vox
This spring is a very good time to be a bird.
In forests across the Midwest and Southeast, the ground is about to erupt with billions of loud, protein-packed cicadas....
Ronald Bailey, Reason
"The tragedy of today is that we are the heirs and the beneficiaries of thousands of years of progress and we take it for granted. You wake up in a nice soft bed. You...
James B. Meigs, City Journal
Michael Shermer got his first clue that things were changing at Scientific American in late 2018. The author had been writing his "Skeptic" column for...
Eric Berger, Ars Technica
NASA's senior leaders in human spaceflight gathered for a momentous meeting at the agency's headquarters in Washington, DC, almost exactly 10 years...
University of Colorado-Boulder
Scientists at CU Boulder and Princeton University have, for the first time, employed a tool often used in geology to detect the atomic fingerprints of...
Mass Inst of Tech
MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The distant signals, which trace back more than 13 billion...
Colorado-Boulder
Planetary scientists at CU Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth's scalding and uninhabitable neighbor, became so dry.
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