How to save humanity? Opposing grand approaches emerged from two remarkable scientists in the mid-20th century who fought each other their entire lives. Their solutions were so persuasive that their impassioned argument continues 70 years […]
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Space X Prepares for Orbital Flight
Elon Musk’s firm is expected to launch the first full flight of the Orbital ship and its booster, sometime in the second half of this year. t could prove a big step forward for SpaceX’s […]
Branson’s Long, Winding Path to Space
For more than 15 years, Virgin Galactic has been working to begin carrying paying passengers to the edge of space and back. In the early 1990s, celebrated aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan set himself a challenge: […]
Solving one of Nuclear Fusion’s Biggest Problems
The new Super-X divertor could be a game-changer for creating fusion power plants that can deliver affordable, efficient electricity. Initial results from the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) MAST Upgrade experiment indicate the effectiveness of […]
Space Tourism Takes Off
Here’s how firms like Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX are making sure visitors’ bodies can survive the trip. Companies like Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin are gearing up to send […]
China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Reactor Breaks a New World Record
China has achieved a new milestone in humanity’s experiments to harness the power of the stars. On Friday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius (216 million degrees Fahrenheit) and […]
Dark Matter and Information
Some physicists claim information is the fifth state of matter. By 2245, half of Earth’s mass could be converted to digital bits. All the matter that surrounds us exists either as a solid, liquid, gas, […]
We’re Asking the Wrong Questions about UFOs
For too long, the scientific study of unidentified flying objects has been taboo. A big driver of that taboo is the vacuum of knowledge that is being filled by unscientific claims thanks to a lack […]
The Age of Genetic Medicine
Covid-19 vaccines are the start of a new wave of genetic medicine—drugs that tweak DNA to keep us healthy. Both the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA) to instruct our cells to […]