Sci-Fi

It’s coming. The polar vortex — a spinning mass of winter-chilled Arctic air — has become wobbly and weak. It’s expected to slosh down and blanket a considerable part of the East Coast and Midwest […]

Like an unlocked museum, national parks have been left largely defenseless during the most recent government shutdown, allowing scoundrels and cheats to tramp over unstaffed lands. While much of the federal government is funded during […]

Just as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day 2019, hundreds of astrophysicists, engineers, and astronomers gulped champagne from plastic cups and cheered in an auditorium at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, in […]

Female research scientists are more productive than their male colleagues, though they are widely perceived as being less so. Women are also rewarded less for their scientific achievements. That’s according to my team’s study for […]

A male Sehuencas water frog, named “Romeo.”Image: Matias Careaga/Museo de Historia Natural Alcided’Orbigny By Mark Kaufman2019-01-15 16:20:13 UTC Teresa Camacho Badani’s boots brimmed with water after slogging through flowing streams in Bolivia’s mountainous cloud forest. […]

A triple whammy of disease, climate change, and deforestation has threatened around 60 percent of the planet’s wild coffee species. While this hasn’t yet imperiled the world’s coffee supply, it jeopardizes your favorite coffee’s resiliency […]

Acorn Biolabs wants consumers to pay them to store genetic material in a bet that the increasing advances in targeted genetic therapies will yield better healthcare results down the line. The company’s pitch is to “Save […]

China is a land of contrasts. The rural parts of the country are known for beautiful, green expanses. China’s cities are breathtaking in a more literal sense. It’s common to see people on the streets […]

Antarctica — home to the greatest ice sheets on Earth — isn’t just melting significantly faster than it was decades ago. Great masses of ice that scientists once presumed were largely immune to melting are […]

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has gained accolades for its multiple successful launches of reusable rockets. Now, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), wants to take this idea a step further and create the first rocket that has two reusable […]