Monthly Archives April 25, 2018

A countdown. Ignition. Channeled tongues of fire push the ground away. A rocket races towards space. This is humanity’s route to the stars. Or maybe not. “It’s completely different.” “It...

When you hear the term “carbon dioxide,” the first thing that comes to mind is most likely the various environmental problems attributed to its presence, most notably its role as a greenhouse gas and its...

When you go to sleep, your whole body relaxes, but your brain actually never rests. Increasing evidence suggests that sleep is important for several cognitive functions, one of which is...

Thanks to vaccines, we’ve been able to reduce the global impact of measles, smallpox, and other infectious diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared smallpox eradicated in 1980 after a global...

Physics can tell us about space-time and the movement of particles, but what can it tell us about people and past cultures? The archaeological record tells us a great deal about past peoples that inhabited the...