science

Picture a sign post next to a remote building: Last gas for the next 50 million miles. A second sign sits beneath it, clarifying the location: Next stop, Mars. Last week, President Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which charts the space agency’s trajectory and will shape the …

Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be “Yes.” The original Climategate emails — correspondence stolen from servers at a research facility in the U.K. and released on the Internet in late 2009 …

In a sign of pessimism about humanity’s future, scientists today set the hands of the infamous “Doomsday Clock” forward one minute from two years ago. “It is now five minutes to midnight,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) director Kennette Benedict announced today (Jan. 10) at a press conference in …

The search for alien intelligence is an enduring human endeavor. Many scientists say it’s just a matter of time before we find evidence it exists, and now, anyone can get in on the hunt — as long as they have a computer. “All you need is Internet access, and the …