Sci-Fi

There are plenty of ways to manipulate photos to make you look better, remove red eye or lens flare, and so on. But so far the blink has proven a tenacious opponent of good snapshots. […]

A dust storm the size of North America has smothered NASA’s Opportunity rover for the past week, shrouding much of the red planet in darkness and depriving the robot’s solar panels of light.  Opportunity’s battery […]

Elizabeth Holmes has left her role as CEO of Theranos and has been charged with wire fraud, CNBC and others report. The company’s former president, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, was also indicted today by a grand […]

Professor Stephen Hawking. Image: Jemal Countess/Getty Images By Rayne Ellis2018-06-15 15:55:45 UTC Stephen Hawking’s voice is speeding through space.  The famed cosmologist, who passed away in March at the age of 76, always dreamed of […]

Obviously, you’re going to crave french fries and donuts over healthier food options.  But why is it that we sometimes really, really yearn for these two foods in particular over others that aren’t so good […]

If I show you single picture of a room, you can tell me right away that there’s a table with a chair in front of it, they’re probably about the same size, about this far […]

Day has turned to night for NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars. A huge dust storm that’s now 14-million square miles wide, covering a full quarter of the red planet, has blotted out the sun above […]

A pretty star, HD 163296, in the constellation of Sagittarius, has some young planets orbiting it. Image: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Ackno By Johnny Lieu2018-06-14 02:44:31 UTC Finding young planets in our galaxy is still […]

Earth-orbiting satellites are watching Antarctica thaw.  Eighty scientists from over 40 earth sciences agencies, including NASA and the European Space Agency, used satellite data from between 1992 to 2017 to find that Antarctica has lost […]

Trapping carbon emissions deep within Earth’s crust may be a clever way to keep warming greenhouse gases from amassing in the planet’s atmosphere.  Giant wind turbines and solar-paneled roofs are almost certainly the energy future, […]