Ukraine Found the Perfect Use for the Radioactive Land of Chernobyl
Chernobyl is getting a giant solar power plant.
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Chernobyl is getting a giant solar power plant.
We humans tend to pride ourselves on our ability to adapt, but bacteria have been beating us at this game for billions of years.
Some critters really do take the piss... literally.
Ludicrously powerful telescope unearths more clues surrounding this mysterious world.
Cats can locate wildfires far off in the distance and then travel to the burn scars weeks later to feed on mammals whose homes just went up in flames.
“I think it’s tremendously exciting to see all of these new results from Cassini. Many of them are things we never expected in the first place.”
Neolithic humans living on the Indonesian island of Pulau Ay were using nutmeg as a food ingredient 3,500 years ago, according to new research.
Leon Lederman, the former head of the Fermi National Accelerator Lab died at a nursing home in Idaho on October 3rd.
While physicists really care about their research, the vast majority don’t care enough to end life on Earth in their pursuit of knowledge.
A German-French probe called MASCOT is now collecting valuable data from the surface of Ryugu. But it better get cracking
These real-world applications are only the beginning of what scientists could create using directed evolution.
Yeah, don't do this.
A prominent Italian physicist lectured fledging women scientists at CERN about the dangers of gender equality and “cultural Marxism” within science.
It's 6 billion miles from the Sun, but experts say its orbital configuration points to the existence of a much larger, more distant planet out there.
The idea that winds should be our sole metric for defining hurricanes is supremely misguided.
This discovery shows just how resilient and adaptable life can be.
