The world faces many terrestrial crises right now, so it’s easy to forget that giant space rocks may one day threaten the very...
One of the nice things about the Internet is that you don’t need huge reference books anymore. You really don’t need big wall...
Even as we bask in the knowledge that our neighboring planet Mars is currently home to a multitude of still functional landers,...
By now, many of you have seen the video of [Rick Cavallaro]’s Blackbird, the controversial wind-powered land vehicle that can...
The Hubble Space Telescope’s remarkably long service life and its string of astonishing contributions to astronomy belie its...
When it comes to inspiring a lifelong appreciation of science, few experiences are as powerful as that first glimpse of the world...
It’s hot! Hotter than it used to be, and too hot for things to remain nice in the future. The sun keeps beating down, and as...
They weren’t scheduled to return to Earth until April 28th at the earliest, so why did NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, along...
If you’ve ever had surgery, you know firsthand how important it is to keep the wound from getting infected. There are special conductive sutures that sense...
It’s always fun to look over aerial and satellite maps of places we know, seeing a perspective different from our usual ground level view. We lose...