SCIENCE

How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?0
- Front Page, Opinions, SCIENCE
- November 20, 2019
On the 40th anniversary of the first world climate conference in 1979, the journal Bioscience published the ominously titled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” “Scientists,” the Warning begins, “have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is.’ On the basis of this obligation…we declare, with
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Elon Musk Unveils Updates To Starship 0
- Front Page, Headline News, SCIENCE
- September 29, 2019
Shelby Talcott SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled updates to SpaceX’s Starship design Saturday evening and discussed what still needs to be done to make his highly-anticipated idea a reality. Starship features a stainless steel outer body and is a prototype expected to launch during a test flight later in 2019. It is meant to carry
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The Neuroscience of Political Decision-Making 0
- Free Style, Front Page, Opinions, SCIENCE
- July 21, 2019
All human accomplishments and advancements come from the results of thought. Science, technology, and political ideas come from the same source: human intellect. However, despite this amazing capacity to sort things out, create, and innovate, our brains can also be imperfect, biased, and flawed. The human brain is a fallible, malleable, and limited operating tool
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What That Giant Asteroid of Gold Would Really Do to the Economy 0
- Front Page, Opinions, SCIENCE
- July 10, 2019
In Greek mythology, Psyche was a woman of such beauty that she inspired jealousy in the love goddess Venus. The 19th-century Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis named a massive asteroid after her. How appropriate that it turns out that 16 Psyche, one of the biggest asteroids in the asteroid belt, is made out of a
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Apocalypse Now? UN Warns Of Imminent Ecological Catastrophe, Just Like They Did In 1982 0
- Front Page, SCIENCE, WORLD
- May 7, 2019
Michael Bastasch Republish Reprint The United Nations is out with a familiar refrain: ecological catastrophe is decades away, echoing a warning from 1982. In 1982, the U.N. warned of environmental destruction “as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust” by the turn of the century. This time, the U.N. says one million species are threatened with extinction,
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Elon Musk Nuts To Photos Of Mars On Twitter 0
- Front Page, Pop Culture, SCIENCE
- February 10, 2019
Mars may be a cold and lonely planet, but things appear to be heating up with some hot romance. A very risque Twitter exchange between the planet Mars and Space-X founder Elon Musk unfolded on Twitter. The exchange began when Twitter user @laineyjanelle tweeted that she wanted to move to Mars because there are no
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