Whenever someone asks me about outer space, I get animated.
No surprise there: I’ve made a living speaking to experts and writing about the topic for more than a decade, and have read obsessively on these topics for much longer than that.
I’ve heard a lot of peculiar “facts” over the years — and even believed and shared a few myself — that I eventually learned were totally false.
A new report found that former Vice President Al Gore’s estate near Nashville, Tennessee, used more than 21 times more energy than the average U.S. household over the past year.
Professor: Climate Journalism Awash In ‘Emotional Propaganda’, ‘Mythological Constructs’, and Too Much Reliance On Models, ‘Consensus’
A University of Wollongong (Australia) investigative journalism professor with a research interest in ecological science and exposing environmental fraud has just published a scathing indictment of the climate science journalism industry in the academic journal Asia Pacific Media Educator.
Former Vice President Al Gore told a Catholic priest that tackling man-made global warming is “not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual issue” during a town hall event on CNN Tuesday night.
Al Gore was challenged on climate science Tuesday night when the mayor of Tangier Island, a community threatened by coastal erosion, told the environmentalist film producer he hadn’t seen the sea level change since he began his first career as a commercial crabber in 1970.
When a black hole and a neutron star collide, it might shower outer space with precious metals like gold and platinum while spewing out radioactive elements.
In an effort to stop a species of killer fish from infiltrating the Great Lakes, Michigan’s governor on Tuesday launched the “Invasive Carp Challenge,” the state’s latest response to the aggressive invaders.
Cue the greenage! It’s midsummer, which means daily afternoon thunderstorms that fill the sky with dark clouds, heavy rain, and scenes like this one out of Pennsylvania. While we may be out of the primary severe season that typically lasts from April through June, Mother Nature continues to prove you don’t need a severe or supercell thunderstorm to produce impressive views and storm structure.
British disease experts have suggested to do away with the “incorrect” advice to always finish a course of antibiotics, saying the approach was fuelling the spread of drug resistance.
Humanity’s farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this August and September. Despite their vast distance, they continue to communicate with NASA daily, still probing the final frontier.
Observations conducted with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have uncovered a young stellar cluster designated NGC 3293. The data provided by the spacecraft reveal insights about its stellar population. The findings were presented July 27 in a paper published on arXiv.org.