Astronomers are still further than they’d like to be to solving the mystery that is dark matter, concentrations of mysterious, invisible energy throughout the universe that may have impacted our own planet more than we think. While they were once thought to be part of a “dark sector,” a hidden quantum field out of the […]

For the last few decades, ever since the gradual decline of interest in the American space program, scientists and engineers have sought a way to get to Mars, a rather lofty goal that might be reachable within the next 20 years, but may perhaps be one of the longest planetary flights that astronauts have yet […]

The Atlantic has had an uneasy last few centuries – from a 990 mile patch of garbage found in its northern portion (about the distance from Cuba to Virginia), and growing by eight tons of plastic each year, to the heavy absorption of man-cause CO2 cooking its vast quantities of shellfish from rising acid levels, […]

Over the last decade, there’s been quite a debate about whether or not, and perhaps more importantly whether or not we should, clone the woolly mammoth back to life. So far, researchers have made some progress on the first question at least. Back in 2005, the Mammoth Creation Project suggested that a creature with 88 […]

One of the best secrets is hidden away deep in Colombia’s forests. You might be thinking it’s the beans for a new label of Juan Valdez coffee, but it’s a bit more interesting than that: The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) based in Valle de Cauca and staffed by an international team of three […]

First proposed in 1927 by Belgian physicist Georges Lemaitre as the “Hypothesis of the Primeval Atom,” the Big Bang Theory (mostly associated with the sitcom but popularized in movies since Disney’s Fantasia), remains the predominant explanation for the origin of how our universe got to be the way it is today – starting from a […]

Ancient stories of Viking expeditions to Middle Easter lands may have had at least a few grains of truth, according to archaeologists analyzing a 9th century Swedish grave in which a ring bearing Islamic inscriptions was found. The ring bears a pink-violet colored stone with an inscription that can be transliterated as “for Allah” or […]

The rapid disappearance of the Everglades marsh rabbit may be attributed to a single cause: the Burmese python. Although these rabbits found in Everglades National Park aren’t exactly high ranking on the food chain, their rapid disappearance is unusual, faster almost than they can reproduce. They are native to the park but have been declining […]

It’s been fifty years now, but Alexei Leonov can still remember the moment he opened the capsule and wandered into the cold vastness of space for the first time – the moment when he was the first and at the time, the only human to float through the heavens. “I gently pulled myself out and […]

The Celts, in addition to being a basketball team from Boston, were at one time a distinct cultural presence throughout much of Western Europe during the age of Antiquity, and dominant well into the early Middle Ages, even long after they converted to Christianity. While they have prominent burials and monuments that can be found […]