Sci-Fi

The demand for cheaper, greener electricity means that the energy landscape is changing faster than at any other point in history. This is particularly true of solar-powered electricity and battery...

July brought us the best close-up photos of the sun that the world has ever seen. Now, there are some new ones. In a new photo release from the Leibniz...

SpaceX, with relatively little pomp and circumstance, carried out another successful test flight for its Starship, the company's vehicle aimed at long-distance space flight.  The launch and 150-meter test flight...

While filming herself getting ready for work recently, TikTok user @gracie.ham reached deep into the ancient foundations of mathematics and found an absolute gem of a question: How could someone...

What separates species if not their physical appearance? We separate species based on their reproductive compatibility. According to the biological definition of species, two organisms belong to the same species...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. Will a storm probably hit my town? Will it be a terrible...

Meteorologists have gotten pretty damn good at forecasting a hurricane’s track. But they still struggle to calculate when it will intensify, as it’s seriously hard to understand what’s happening inside...

Superlatives can describe 2020's fires in the Arctic Circle.  To illustrate, the 2020 fires trumped even 2019's Arctic blazes, which were already record-breaking, compared to the previous 16 years of...

Why should there be a strict limit, however, on predicting a day’s weather? How can human progress and understanding — having eradicated smallpox, built supercomputers, and sent humanity to the...

I want to ROCK (or not) One variation of the panspermia idea, lithopanspermia theory, suggests microbes may hide within the rocky confines of asteroids, protected from the often-damaging effects of radiation....