Sci-Fi

Plants on Earth have flourished for hundreds of millions of years, yet President Donald Trump’s pick to lead his new climate team insists that they need more carbon dioxide to thrive. Princeton physicist and carbon […]

In January 2019, a clan of scientists and conservationists tramped through the torrid Indonesian forest in search of the Wallace’s giant bee — a species that hadn’t been spotted alive since 1981. “Nobody had seen […]

Disclosure Every product here is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our work. Artist’s concept of Hippocamp, discovered in 2013 but now […]

For the first time later this week, a privately developed moon lander will launch aboard a privately built rocket, organized by a private launch coordinator. It’s an historic moment in space and the Israeli mission […]

In 1975, geologist Wallace Broecker penned a scientific paper warning about the still little-discussed concept of “global warming.” Forty-four years later Broecker has died at 87, but not before proving himself a legendary earth scientist, […]

Maybe you’re a full-time student trying to come up with next month’s ramen budget. Perhaps you’ve just lost your job and you’re trying to earn a few bucks in between interviews. Or it could be […]

In the year 2044, our cities might be energized by fusion power plants, our sleek cars may all run on electricity, and our doctors might regularly employ gene-editing to cure blindness.  But our airplanes will […]

Bright patches of light near a new-born star. Image: ESA/Hubble/ NASA, K. Stapelfeldt By Mark Kaufman2019-02-17 16:19:53 UTC When a star is born, a chaotic light show ensues.  NASA’s long-lived Hubble Space Telescope captured vivid […]

Glowing eyes. Image: Paul A. Sellen/THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS By Mark Kaufman2019-02-17 19:34:22 UTC Fossil hunters in Korea discovered long-dead spiders preserved in rock. And to the delight of scientists, the arachnids’ eyes are still […]

Stories careening around the web over the past few days have sounded the alarm about an “invasion” of polar bears on an archipelago at the northern reaches of Russia. But for all the sensationalist headlines, […]