Sci-Fi

Since planes were invented, they’ve flown using moving parts to push air around. Sure, there are gliders and dirigibles, which float more than fly, but powered flight is all about propellers (that’s why they call […]

Don’t panic! Life imitates art, to be sure, but hopefully the researchers in charge of the Cognitive Architecture for Space Exploration, or CASE, have taken the right lessons from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and their […]

[embedded content] While the Woolsey Fire in southern California, is largely contained (96% as of Monday night) some of the terrifying images from the last several weeks are continuing to trickle out, including the above […]

A large home surrounded by a charred landscape from the Woolsey Fire. Image: David Crane/Digital First Media/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images By Shannon Connellan2018-11-21 04:46:44 UTC While the Woolsey Fire burning in Southern […]

SpaceX’s next and soon-to-be most powerful rocket officially has a new name.  The private spaceflight company’s founder, Elon Musk, announced on Twitter late Monday night that SpaceX’s BFR — short for Big Falcon Rocket or […]

This post is part of our High-tech High series, which explores weed innovations, and our cultural relationship with cannabis, as legalization in several U.S. states, Canada, and Uruguay moves the market further out of the […]

If you’re anything like us, you’re awaiting the first-ever direct-observation photographs of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of The Milky Way, with bated breath. But, you might want to go ahead […]

NASA’s next car-sized rover will plummet through the thin Martian atmosphere and softly land on the floor of a dried-up lakebed, the space agency announced Monday. When the robot arrives on Mars about 8 months […]

Paradise, California during the Camp Fire. Image: © 2018 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company By Marcus Gilmer2018-11-15 17:00:01 UTC As wildfires continue to rage across California, a set of before and after photos brings into focus […]

Flammable water attributed to fracking activity in Weatherford, Texas. Image: Julie Dermansky/Corbis via Getty Images By Matt Binder2018-11-18 20:40:42 UTC At the beginning of the year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made changes to its […]