A supercomputer puts a date on human extinction, and scientists propose solutions to looming threats
A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it.
Composting in an apartment is easier than you think—and not smelly either.
"When added to soil, compost enhances soil tilth and fertility, suppresses plant disease, improves the ability of soil to ...
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California Spending $100M to Track Methane With Satellites
California will soon start using satellite technology to track down methane and other greenhouse gas emissions, such as oil ...
Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility
New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...
Scientific American12h
When Was the First Exoplanet Discovered?
So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel12h
Clouds changing as world warms, adding to climate uncertainty
People have always studied the skies to predict the weather, but recently scientists have noticed that clouds are changing on ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists13h
Reach for the Stardust? Former Israel Atomic Energy Commission official leads controversial geoengineering start-up
A startup called Stardust is developing a proprietary geoengineering technology that could block sun rays from reaching the ...
The closest potentially Earth-like exoplanet probably can't host life
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...