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Humanity’s To-Do List Before Settling Space: A Guest Post by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, authors of A City on Mars

Humanity is closer than ever to settling a second world. Or at least that’s what we thought 5 years ago,…

Look around: Climate change is here, from a hurricane crossing the California desert to devastating wildfires on Maui and flooding…

I can’t say I’m well-versed in starry skies, and yet, I’m certain there’s nothing more whimsical than laying out underneath…

A bit Bill Bryson, a dash Mary Roach, the canvas of Neil deGrasse Tyson, and all the excitement of a…

Is it possible to “grow out of” dinosaurs? We definitely don’t think so. Dinosaurs were a spectacularly diverse group of…

Earth Day turns 50 this year! And to celebrate this inspiring movement, we’re recalling books, old and new, for all…

Astronomy buffs started making plans years ago to see the total solar eclipse that will arc through America on August…

Science has given us video games, microwave burritos, and self-driving cars. It is the backbone of modern civilization. Yet many…

In the history of the world (as far as we know) there have been five major extinctions, with smaller extinctions…

If you’re anything like I was, you were more concerned in school with the arts than the sciences, and definitely…

Creative types have been mining material from the sciences for years. Hollywood loves the imaginative leaps of science fiction (it’s…