14 Small, Effective Ways That People Are Doing Good Things for the Environment
Many people think that we are currently in a do-or-die situation when it comes to our planet and the environment. In other words, if we don’t act now and act decisively, negative trends might never be able to be reversed. And that’s bad news for every living thing on Earth. While it may seem daunting,...
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Has Been On Mars For 8 Years And Here Are The Best Photos From It
NASA’s Curiosity is a Mars rover that landed on Mars on August 6, 2012 – if you remember, you could even sort of livestream its Martian landing. It became the only functional robot on the planet after NASA’s Opportunity stopped communicating on February 13, 2019. After nearly 8 years of service, the Curiosity has taken...
Patagonia’s CEO Donated Company’s Entire $10 Million Tax Cut to Fight Climate Change
This is what corporate responsibility looks like, in my humble opinion. As much as some people (and organizations) out there would like to bury their heads in the sand and pretend climate change doesn’t exist, it is very real, and its effects are growing more drastic. Because of the 2018 rewrite of America’s tax laws...
Astronomers Watch a Star Skip the Supernova Stage and Go Straight to Black Hole
When someone says to go out with a bang, they usually don’t mean literally. But when it comes to dying stars, typically astronomers expect them to go out with enormous bangs: supernovae. However, recently a group of Ohio University scientists observed a star that didn’t have quite the same life path in mind. Instead of...
Physicist Brian Cox Shares Why Aliens Haven’t Visited Earth
The truth might be out there, but here on earth, we haven’t seen hide nor hair of alien life. Why is that? Well, the general thinking in the world of astronomy, astrophysics, and physics is that logically, we cannot be the only planet where conditions have promoted the evolution of human life. It’s called the...
A 17-Year-Old Discovered a Planet on the Third Day of His NASA Internship
Kids today…are pretty great, as it turns out! At least, some of them are. On only the third day into his internship at NASA, a 17-year-old named Wolf Cukier (awesome name) discovered a new planet that is being called “TOI 1338 b”. The planet is 6.9 times larger than Earth, and the folks at NASA...
Science Answers: What Is Officially the Hottest Place on Earth?
The past decade was the hottest in recorded history, and it has seen record-breaking average yearly temperatures and single-day temperatures in places across the globe. This is largely due to global climate change, and it’s a dangerous trend. However… According to the World Meteorological Organization, the hottest temperature ever recorded was a sweltering 134 degrees...
