Category : science

SpaceX breaks records with 'SmallSat Express' launch, including landing the same rocket 3 times

SpaceX completed an unprecedented 19th launch this year on Monday, while putting a U.S. record 64 satellites in orbit at once. Additionally, SpaceX made history as the first company to fly the same orbital-class rocket three times. This Falcon 9 ro...

OSIRIS-REx probe reaches asteroid Bennu for close-up survey and sample return

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx today made its official rendezvous with a promising and potentially perilous asteroid named Bennu, after two years of closing in on it. “We have arrived,” telecommunications engineer Javi Cerna announced during a NASA webcast from m...

The Office Cast Got Together to Re-create a Legendary Dunder Mifflin Holiday Photo

It the 'Benihana Christmas' reboot fans never knew they needed

Now Millennials Are Being Accused of Killing Canned Tuna

“A lot of millennials don’t even own can openers,” said Andy Mecs, vice president of marketing and innovation for StarKist.

How We Believe

Belief: What It Means to Believe and Why Our Convictions Are So Compelling. By James E. Alcock. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. 2018. ISBN: 9781633884038. 638 pp. In James E. Alcock’s classic 1995 Skeptical Inqui...

Who Would Win A Fight Between An Anaconda And A Komodo Dragon?

The questions that kids ask about science aren’t always easy to answer. Sometimes, their little brains can lead to big places that adults forget to explore. That is what inspired our series Science Question From A Toddler, which uses kids’ curiosity...

Man Who Crashed Car Explains Why He Need to Drive Like 'Ace Ventura'

Not a great idea

How the neoliberal obsession with valuing nature changes our understanding of it

Valuing nature is hardly natural.

Here's the Biggest Piece of Advice That Michelle Obama Has for Meghan Markle

"Meghan probably never dreamt that she’d have a life like this"

Americans on the moon: NASA aims for continuous presence within 10 years

The agency has tapped 9 U.S. companies to help facilitate lunar exploration.

Thriving Plateau Region That Slipped Beneath North Sea 8,000 Years Ago Reveals Its Secrets

A vast plateau of land between England and the Netherlands was once full of life before it sank beneath what is now the North Sea some 8,000 years ago. To do this, they've hauled up cores of sediment from the bottom of the North Sea in an area calle...

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