Astronomers are worried that these satellites—each of them with the potential to be several times brighter than the full moon—will hamper their view of celestial objects. Scientists also They fear …
Anyone glued to their televisions on the night of November 1st—actually the early morning hours of November 2nd—will agree: They don’t come any closer. It was the bottom of the …
AI chatbots have raised all manner of concern in recent months. But University of Toronto psychologist Paul Bloom believes they may have a place in our society — as companions …
A once-a-century solar storm could knock out power and disrupt communications on Earth. How ready are we? Although no geomagnetic storm in the intervening 166 years has matched the fury …
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 …
