Category: 7. SciTech

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the atomic age, was dining with colleagues at Los Alamos, New Mexico, when the conversation turned to extraterrestrial life. Given the vastness of the universe and the…

Over the last decade, Dustin Tingley has reconsidered his beliefs about expertise.

As a public policy expert, Tingley has devised quantitative ways to understand the messy problems and sometimes…

I’ll never forget the day my wife and I drove to pick up our miniature schnauzer puppy. She was just four weeks old and could sit upon my palm. On the way home, I sat with her on the back seat as she cosied up to my lap, looking up at me with those big, adorable eyes.

In the weeks and months…

New images from the JWST are about as close as we’ve ever come to seeing the sky of an alien world outside the Solar System.

Direct images of a gas giant exoplanet orbiting a star called YSES-1 have revealed clouds of fine sand drifting high up in its atmosphere. What’s more, similar…

Take a look at the sky on any given day and you’ll likely see clouds of different shapes — some look like cotton balls, others…

When Isaac Newton wrote down his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we’d be discussing them all these centuries later.

Writing in Latin, Newton outlined three universal principles describing how the motion of objects is governed in our Universe, which have since been…

Upgrades to the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope have delivered stunning new images of the Sun’s surface containing structures a mere 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) across.

The radiant ‘curtains’ are only about as thick as Manhattan is long, driven across the…

Doctors are reporting a surprising increase in appendix cancer rates among millennials and Generation X, indicating that a higher disease…

The Universe may not have started with the Big Bang, but instead “bounced” out of a massive black hole formed within a larger “parent”…

Since the late 19th century, sauropod dinosaurs (long-necks like Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus) have been almost universally regarded as…