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Little changes can make a big difference It’s not too late. DepositPhotos Back in 2016, Gina McCarthy—the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency at the time—sat...
Happy birthday to the best space telescope ever! Love, PopSci. A visible light image of the Lagoon Nebula (aka Messier 8 or M8) with the bright...
And that could mean trouble. We know that at the end of the last major ice age, rapid fluctuations in the circulation led to extreme climate...
Dinosaurs stomped all over this remote Scottish island and left the prints to prove it. A sauropod footprint found on Skye. Paige dePolo Amidst the wild...
Happy Easter! Don’t freak out, but do look up. DepositPhotos Back in the fall of 2017, outlets started reporting that a defunct Chinese space station—Tiangong-1—was set...
There are many members of the animal kingdom that rival our own wits. No other member of the animal kingdom can ace an algebra test or...
As geo-engineering projects soar, the declassified project is newly relevant. Troops wade through a river in Vietnam. Wikimedia Commons It was a seasonably chilly afternoon in...
What do we actually know about ancient astronomy? How did Egyptians know how to build the pyramids? Ricardo Liberato/wikimedia, CC BY-ND Ever since humans could look...
Because it sure isn’t here. … no way to tell until they finally hail us. All we know is how far our strongest signals could travel....
And we might be in for another one. … the East with wet snow and power outages. It turns out that having three storms so close...
Very little—even if it’s very big. Size isn’t everything. Radio Researchers used to think brain-to-body-size ratio revealed intelligence because it showed how a species devoted energy...
The whole world is drying up. Cape Town’s water reservoirs are drying up. NASA Earth Observatory Day Zero: that’s the ominous label officials in Cape Town...
Temperatures in the Arctic could help drive extreme weather in the United States. Can we blame it on the Arctic? PJ Hanse via Flickr Last October,...
They’re windows into the heart of the Earth. … of the planet. Petra Diamonds Diamonds have been in the news quite a lot this week, and...
Meanwhile in space: dusty donuts, 50 launches, and pizza storms on Jupiter. An artist’s illustration of the Parker Solar Probe near the Sun. Johns Hopkins University...