Category: 7. Science

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia.

Planet-warming…

As Earth’s population continues to grow and strain environmental resources, researchers are increasingly examining how humans might one day build settlements beyond Earth. Not many construction materials can withstand extreme…

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• Researchers at RPTU used Bose–Einstein condensates to simulate a Josephson junction and observed Shapiro steps, demonstrating a quantum simulation of a key superconducting effect.
• The experiment reproduced quantized…

I’ve been fortunate enough to witness the aurora on several occasions over the years, and each sighting leaves an impression that never quite fades. There’s something about watching the sky transform from gentle curtains of light into…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.

Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles (269…

Long before Earth existed, before the Sun ignited, the materials that would eventually become our Solar System drifted through the darkness between stars. These interstellar clouds, vast expanses of ice, gas, and dust stretching across…

Atoms and molecules from Earth’s atmosphere have been traveling across space to settle on the moon for billions of years, new research has found, explaining a lunar mystery that goes back to the Apollo missions.

Not only do the findings point to…

A “House of Cards” is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable. It’s also the term Sarah…