Scientists Have Drafted a Complete Tree of Life
Trace each and every Earthling back far enough, and you’ll arrive at a common ancestor. For the first time, scientists have built a comprehensive tree of life that binds us all together.
Trace each and every Earthling back far enough, and you’ll arrive at a common ancestor. For the first time, scientists have built a comprehensive tree of life that binds us all together.
This incredible aerial tour will finally let us normal people fly over Pluto. Read More >>
Most of us prefer not to dwell on the End Times, but for the folks at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, the apocalypse is just another day at work.
The JKL Museum of Telephony, dedicated to preserving the history of phones, was destroyed last week as one of the worst wildfires of the summer raged across the central valley of California.
The Perlan Mission II will launch to soaring altitudes of 90,000 feet, where it’ll harvest invaluable data on Earth’s atmosphere and climate.
It doesn’t take a lot to crash Chrome: Only sixteen characters.
For thousands of years, history has been recorded piecemeal, in books, artefacts, buildings and legends. But in the age of molecular biology, a new archive is helping to fill in the gas.
A science publisher is granting paid-for content to Wiki editors and it is causing all sorts of fuss in academic circles.
Astrophotographer Adam Woodworth has outdone himself, with his latest reminder that Earth is the most beautiful planet you’ll ever live on: An electric blue strip of bioluminescent coastline under a dazzlingly starry night sky. See more >>
Three and a half billion light years away in the Virgo constellation, two supermassive black holes are on the verge of smacking into one another. In 100,000 years, their cosmic collision will send ripples across the fabric of spacetime. Read More >>
Halfway into his Year in Space, astronaut Scott Kelly is providing some interesting and crucial data on how humans cope with being in orbit for so long.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has just announced that his private space company Blue Origin will be taking over a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida that hasn’t been used in a decade.
If intelligent life is out there, we don’t want them to think we’re a bunch of backward fleshy bigots now, do we?
Ever heard of Braco? Prepare for things to get weird. Avoid staring directly into his eyes.
The Apollo moon missions ended over 40 years ago, but incredibly, scientists are still learning from them.
The new platform could soon be steering a new generation of UAVs with bigger brains and smaller price tags.
