Sci-Fi

Ariana Grande, a star and NASA fan. Image: Mike Coppola / Getty Images for Billboard  By Nicole Gallucci2019-02-08 20:45:54 UTC Ariana Grande’s highly anticipated album, thank u, next, is finally here in full, and there’s […]

An animated depiction of MU69, or Ultima Thule Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics /Southwest Research Institute/National Optical Astronomy Observatory By Mark Kaufman2019-02-08 23:01:08 UTC It’s a strange little world. At 4 billion miles from […]

Uranus, a huge gaseous world some 1.8 billion miles from the sun, is quite stormy. NASA’s long-lived Hubble telescope spotted a notable storm churning inside the planet’s blue-green atmosphere, and the space agency posted the […]

Ever since I read a 2014 WHO report stating that antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill more people each year than cancer by 2050, I have been looking for signs of hope that we might avoid plummeting […]

Insulin pills have long been a kind of Holy Grail for people living with diabetes. A research team at MIT believes it may have taken an important step toward that dream with a new blueberry-sized […]

In early 2017, the Trump Administration tried to ax NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3, or OCO-3. It didn’t work. Then, again in 2018, the White House sought to terminate the earth science instrument.  Again, the […]

Here’s a choose-your-own-adventure game nobody wants to play: you’re a United States judge tasked with deciding bail for a black man, a first-time offender, accused of a non-violent crime. An algorithm just told you there’s […]

Experts say that over two-thirds of the Himalaya’s glaciers could melt by 2100. Even if steps are made towards reducing global warming, one-third of the Himalayas will still be affected. The experts say the melting […]

For the past couple of years, the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology has publicly disparaged and disputed climate science.  The lawmaking committee’s official Twitter account promoted blogs from Breitbart […]

Check out the far side of the moon, with Earth on the bottom right. Image: MingChuan Wei/Harbin Institute of Technology By Mark Kaufman2019-02-05 23:00:48 UTC A Chinese satellite swooped behind the moon and snapped a […]