Exercising can increase your need to drink water, but there’s no need to overdo it. The warmer weather and longer days have inspired reminders to…
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A large piece of space debris, possibly weighing several tonnes, is currently on an uncontrolled reentry phase (that’s space speak for “out of control”), and…
This April full moon is known as the pink moon because it heralds the arrival of spring flowers. A “super full moon” is coming on…
This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover carries a number of technologies that could make Mars safer and…
These days, major league baseball fastball pitches routinely top 100 mph. Pitchers’ fastballs are getting better and better. From 2008 to 2020, the average speeds…
We Need Global “Maximum Suppression” At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain…
In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around…
Bye-bye, burners. To curb climate change, many experts have called for a massive shift from fossil fuels to electricity. The goal is to electrify processes…
China’s Tianwen-1 blasts off. Credit: STR/EPA How times have changed since the Apollo era. Within the space of a few days, two space missions from…
A person falling into a black hole and being stretched while approaching the black hole’s horizon. Credit: Leo Rodriguez and Shanshan Rodriguez, CC BY-ND To…
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is mutating. The SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates fast. That’s a concern because these more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 are now present in the…
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time. But it also left us…
New mathematics have shown that lines of energy can be used to describe the universe. Matter is what makes up the universe, but what makes…
The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard…
The decoy effect is the phenomenon where consumers swap their preference between two options when presented with a third option. The decoy effect: how you…
Let’s say you’re interviewing a new applicant for a job and you feel something is off. You can’t quite put your finger on it, but…
President Donald J. Trump works in the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD on Saturday, October 3, 2020, after…
President Donald J. Trump, joined by Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, participates in a phone call with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense Mark…
A life-scene from 232 million years ago, during the Carnian Pluvial Episode after which dinosaurs took over. A large rauisuchian lurks in the background, while…
Credit: Dimitris Siskopoulos/Wiki commonc, CC BY-SA Let’s turn back the hands of time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the “Great Dying” extinction…