Carnivorous plants reinvent plant nutrition and, with traps such as Dionaea and Nepenthes, show highly precise convergent evolution
You really have to slow things down to catch the nightmare unfolding as a carnivorous plant does its magic. As...
Stephen Hawking organized a party for time travelers in Cambridge, and no one showed up, reinforcing his scientific skepticism
Stephen Hawking was a legend in the realms of theoretical physics, cosmology, and even pop culture. Although he battled a...
On San Diego beaches, the rare “green flash” reappears at sunset and confirms what EarthSky explains
If you take a walk at dusk on one of the numerous beaches around San Diego County, you might be...
Stephen Hawking warned that humanity will not survive a thousand years without expanding into space and left a warning about our future
Humans have come up with a lot of innovations in the last hundred years or so. We figured out how...
A giant aquifer beneath the Atlantic Ocean could supply New York for centuries and is believed to have formed during the last ice age
Scientists believe a massive underwater pocket of fresh water off the East Coast, which is large enough to support a...
Scientists at the University of Southampton discover magma pulses beneath Afar that are splitting Africa and creating a new ocean
Scientists at the University of Southampton found evidence that waves of hot, melted rock are rising up from deep below...
Carl Sagan, scientist—“We think we’re important, but we’re just a speck of dust in the galaxy”
We reside in the cosmos as Sagan saw it—incredibly huge and truly grounding. It is a reality that, as he...
A 4.9 magnitude earthquake shakes the Coachella Valley near Indio, reminding us of the constant activity of California’s fault lines
Last January 19, 2026, residents in the Coachella Valley felt quite shook. It wasn't any celebrity drama or local gossip,...
At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider manages to turn lead into gold and revives alchemy as a byproduct of modern physics
The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at...
Earth is experiencing a rare S4 solar storm confirmed by NOAA, the most intense since 2003, with a significant impact on satellites and aviation
You may not have noticed—how could you?—but Earth recently went through a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the strongest one...