Sci-Fi

Earlier this month, Invisibilia celebrated its fifth birthday. As one of NPR‘s most popular podcasts, it deals with the invisible forces behind why we do what we do, think what we think, feel how we feel, […]

Asteroid 6478 Gault leaving trails of debris in space.Image: NASA, ESA, NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory), L. Calçada By Mark Kaufman2019-03-29 17:27:50 UTC Asteroid Gault is […]

Image: Zach Gibson/Getty Images By Morgan Sung2019-03-29 00:48:36 UTC Swamp creatures protested the fact that President Trump is in fact, not draining the swamp.  Protesting the appointment of Secretary of the Interior nominee David Bernhardt, […]

The Mini mum frog is as small as its name gives away.Image: Andolalao Rakotoarison By Johnny Lieu2019-03-29 01:33:48 UTC These newly-described miniature frogs are the smallest of their kind in the world, and they also […]

Rocket Lab, the Kiwi operation working on breaking into the launch industry with small but frequent launches, has its first launch of the year today, due to take off in just a few minutes. Tune […]

After Charles Darwin boarded the H.M.S. Beagle in 1831, the 90-foot ship visited 15 disparate lands — the likes of Brazil, the Canary Islands, and Chile — before eventually anchoring in the Galápagos Islands, four […]

Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it helps creatures including bees, turtles and birds navigate through the world. Scientists have tried to investigate whether humans belong on […]

Temperatures in the Arctic on March 25, 2018  were 10 degrees F above average.Image: Climate reanalyzer/university of maine By Mark Kaufman2019-03-26 15:39:19 UTC It’s unusually warm in The Last Frontier.  Large swaths of Alaska have […]

Why do we exist? This is arguably the most profound question there is and one that may seem completely outside the scope of particle physics. But our new experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has […]

You’re just going to have to wait a little longer for an all-female spacewalk. NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain were scheduled to walk together in the historic moment, but NASA has pulled the […]