In the time of Galileo and Newton, what we now call “science” was known as “natural philosophy.” These days, science and philosophy have gone their separate ways — but perhaps …
Tech billionaires talk about colonizing Mars, building grand space stations far from Earth, lengthening life spans, and maybe even eradicating aging and death, or uploading our minds into computers. Well, …
Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm the ozone layer. For Lawler, the incident drove …
A century ago, a high school teacher from a small Tennessee town ignited a national debate over human evolution “On the surface, the trial was about something that seemed small—whether …
One day, will there be balloon festivals in Venusian atmosphere? Will daring adventurers go skydiving in Jupiter’s atmosphere? I review All-inclusive tours of Saturn’s rings? I review Daydreaming in the …
Quantum mechanics — 100 years old this summer — is the most successful theory in all of physics. And yet, physicists still argue about what it says about reality. Read …
Radio telescopes tracking signals from spinning, ultra-dense stars point to ripples in the fabric of space. While theorists long suspected this gravitational-wave hum should exist, the evidence for it has …
Over a career that spanned six decades, Ruse battled not only creationists but also his fellow Darwinians – notably the “new atheists” who, like him, were in awe of Darwin’s …
With no conclusive laboratory results, researchers are turning to other methods to try to pin down the elusive substance. No one knows what dark matter is made of, but scientists …
