The massive ocean sunfish — an odd-looking fish with a flat, rigid, tailless body — is not only the world’s largest bony fish, but also one of the most elusive fishes in the world.

Climate alarmists got hysterical a few weeks ago about a forecast high temperature of 121F in Phoenix. It didn’t happen and wouldn’t have been unusual for Arizona anyway.

But on July 24, 1936, temperatures did reach 121F in Kansas, and 118F in Nebraska. Almost the entire US was over 90F.

Geologists and biologists are about to pierce one of the world’s youngest islands: tiny Surtsey, which was formed by a series of volcanic eruptions off Iceland’s southwestern coast between 1963 and 1967. Next month, the team plans to drill two holes into Surtsey’s heart, to explore how warm volcanic rock, cold seawater, and subterranean microbes interact.

If I had not looked past the headline of the press report on a new study, I would have just filed it under “It’s worse than we thought”. While technically correct, the story was misleading.

Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have slammed tech entrepreneur Elon Musk for apparently trying to scaremonger over AI.

Earlier this week, the South African-born billionaire said that authorities need to regulate AI now before it is too late.

We may be capable of finding microbes in space—but if we did, could we tell what they were and that they were alive?

Tech billionaire Elon Musk called on NASA to build a moon base during a space technology conference Wednesday.

Demis Hassabis knows a thing or two about artificial intelligence: he founded the London-based AI startup DeepMind, which was purchased by Google for $650 million back in 2014. Since then, his company has wiped the floor with humans at the complex game of Go and begun making steps towards crafting more general AIs.

Many are the studies that seek to understand the response of marine life to possible future conditions of ocean acidification and warming. The latest such study to catch our attention comes from Bahr et al. (2017), but not quite in the manner that one might think; it is what this study did not find that was of interest to us.

NASA has given Lockheed Martin the go-ahead to build a full-scale prototype of the deep space habitat it proposed for the NextSTEP program.

A commentary appearing here at the Swiss Baseler Zeitung (BAZ) slams a recently published British paper on moss growth in Antarctica that gave the impression the south polar continent was greening up due to climate change.

The BAZ writes that the paper is an example of “how today science is manipulated and used for political purposes“.

A bag of moon dust from NASA’s Apollo 11 mission – which a woman bought for $995 in 2015 — sold for $1.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction this week following an intense court battle.

Managing lifestyle factors such as hearing loss, smoking, hypertension, and depression could prevent one-third of the world’s dementia cases, according to a report by the first Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention and Care.

Comedian Bill Nye “The Science Guy” said Wednesday that the climate change movement can only move forward once the older generation begins to die off.

The EPA has this graph on their website, showing that the worst US heat waves (by far) occurred during the 1930s.

Climate Change Indicators: High and Low Temperatures | Climate Change Indicators in the United States | US EPA

Researchers have found that the formation and breakup of supercontinents over hundreds of millions of years control volcanic carbon emissions.