(via Sabine Hossenfelder) I'm tired of both overly optimistic messages from climate activists and scare stories of the ...

(via PBS Terra) Humanity's first Martian explorers will face extreme confinement, isolation and disruption of all bodily rhythms. The psychological stress from all of this could lead to a breakdown of ...

In the millions of years since oxygen began saturating Earth’s oceans and atmosphere, most organisms have evolved to rely on ...

Researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…a time when the first-ever mass ...

It’s a cliche of reporting on people who reach 100 years of age, or even 110, to ask them some variation of the question: ...

When Roger Penrose originally came out with the idea that the human brain uses quantum effects in microtubules and that was ...