In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “The Serviceberry" explores the profound benefits that sharing and mutual exchange can create.

Capping global warming at 1.5°C is a tall order. Achieving that goal will not only require a massive reduction in greenhouse ...

T here’s only one country in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 meters (3,281 feet) in elevation: Lesotho. Known as the ...

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In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing ...

The scientists found three engineering challenges. One is where to build the facilities. They will be exposed to the elements ...

A study of fossilized feces and vomit attempts to piece together why dinosaurs were so evolutionarily successful.

Beside the bluebells and celandines on the woodland floor, Fortey searches for morels, “the most delicious of all fungi”.

It’s time to introduce our hero, (Joseph) Norman Lockyer (1836-1920). Lockyer was a respected though minor civil servant, working as a secretary for the War Office in Whitehall. He had a comfortable ...

Hal Lindsey, who popularized end times theology by connecting biblical prophecy to current and near-future events, died on ...