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Not one, but two asteroids might have slain the dinosaurs

Chicxulub, the asteroid that wiped out most dinosaurs, might have had a little sibling. Off the coast...

These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good

In the summer of 2019, Roman Dial and his friend Brad Meiklejohn hired a single-engine bush plane...

At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable

In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einstein’s equations that precisely described the spacetime...

Here’s What Happens When Countries Use Bikes to Fight Emissions

Transportation produces about a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, and passenger vehicles account for over...

How the Inflation Reduction Act Affects Food and Agriculture

Black farmers are “going to have to do some paperwork to document the discrimination that occurred, but...

Space Nerds at the Beach: A Dispatch From the Aerospace Games

If you’ve ever watched the 2000s teenage-heartthrob movie Twilight, you know there is an iconic thunderstorm baseball...

How Many Peanut Butter Sandwiches Does It Take to Fuel a Hulk?

Superheroes do superhero things: They jump, punch stuff, run fast, and sometimes shoot beams out of their...

How Long Droughts Make Flooding Worse

On Wednesday, August 17, Hannah Cloke—a hydrologist at the University of Reading—was sitting in her home office...

The Mini Missions Aboard the Artemis Rocket Pack a Big Punch

All eyes will be on the moon as the Artemis mission’s inaugural launch blasts toward our lunar...

Europe’s Plan to Wean Itself off Russian Gas Just Might Work

In 1970, West German politicians and gas executives signed a landmark deal with the Soviet Union that...

This De-Extinction Company Wants to Resurrect the Thylacine

Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is...

New Evidence Points to the Moon Once Being Part of Earth

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, a primordial version of Earth covered in molten lava orbited the sun....
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