Earth
26/05/2016 - 16:23
There is no doubt that SETI – the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – has received a huge fillip from the recent discovery of... →
18/05/2016 - 13:19
1) A Particle Accelerator Disaster
By accidentally unleashing exotic forms of matter from particle accelerators, we run the risk of... →
18/04/2016 - 12:12
"It is not the number of people on the planet that is the issue – but the number of consumers and the scale and nature of their consumption... →
07/03/2016 - 13:46
Yet the actual story of Mars is weirder, grander, and in some ways more terrifying than any of the fictions that humans have spun. Although... →
22/10/2015 - 13:39
The researchers found that — while star formation has slowed down overall, and the Milky Way is running out of star-forming gas — most... →
10/04/2015 - 13:32
Insufficiently alien
The problem is that most of what became the Moon should have come from the imposter - and based on our existing... →
15/07/2013 - 14:33
Van Westeren said that taken at face value, the findings suggest that the moon was once part of the Earth that was blasted into space by an... →
07/07/2013 - 12:38
But I have bad news about pyjamas. Because I'm afraid your cotton pyjamas take 9,000 litres of water to produce. And it takes 100 litres of... →
07/11/2012 - 13:46
"There are many regions on Earth where vegetation struggles to reach optimum productivity because of sparse nutrients, such as nitrogen or... →
30/03/2012 - 20:42
A. NEW KNOWLEDGE
6. Humanity has taken a huge leap and become a planetary-scale force. Significant changes have occurred since the 1950s,... →
05/02/2012 - 15:20
Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second. "They've either passed us by, or they stay around their home star systems and contemplate... →