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This Supermoon Hogs the Spotlight Sunday (Sorry, Perseid Meteors)

This is the summer of the supermoon, with three full moons in a row that appear bigger and brighter than normal. But this weekend marks the year’s most super-duper supermoon: When the moon rises on Sunday evening, it’ll be as close as a full moon ever gets to Earth during 2014. Purists will protest: At its closest, the full moon is about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than it...


THURSDAY 7. AUGUST 2014


Watch a Science Cop Take on Donald Trump

The Ebola outbreak that is causing such fear and suffering in Africa is a very real and very deadly thing. But the fact is that the nature of the Ebola virus is such that it stands a very low chance of ever causing a pandemic like AIDS or H1N1. That hasn’t stopped America’s great foghorn—Donald Trump—and others like him from spreading all kinds of misinformation about the disease, warning...


WEDNESDAY 6. AUGUST 2014


NASA’s Hubble Finds Supernova Star System Linked to Potential ‘Zombie Star’

Less like The Walking Dead and more like The Floating Dead: Astronomers believe they have identified the remnants left from an exploded white dwarf, otherwise known as a “zombie star,” about 110 million light-years from Earth. Images like this one, shot with NASA’s Hubble Telescope, reveal the onset and aftermath of a “weaker” supernova, which happens when something...

European Spacecraft Finally Hooks Up With Comet After Ten-Year Pursuit

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has entered the orbit of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, ending a decade-long hunt to become the first vehicle to rendezvous with one. Rosetta and comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko are halfway between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, about 405 million kilometers from Earth, and are traveling at the speed of nearly 55,000 kilometers per...

Top Japanese Scientist Who Co-Authored Discredited Stem-Cell Study Commits Suicide

A top Japanese scientist who oversaw and co-authored a controversial stem-cell study has committed suicide by hanging, authorities said on Tuesday. Yoshiki Sasai, 52, was found in a research institution next to his workplace by a security guard on Tuesday morning and was pronounced dead at a hospital two hours later. Sasai was deputy director of the prestigious RIKEN Center for Developmental...


TUESDAY 5. AUGUST 2014


Museum Finds Misplaced 6,500-Year-Old Human Skeleton in the Cellar

An archaeology museum in Philadelphia said Tuesday it found a 6,500-year-old human skeleton in its own basement. Yes. Its own basement. Researchers at the Penn Museum, which is associated with the University of Pennsylvania, said they found documentation for the human skeleton while digitizing old records. The remains are extremely rare and date to 4,500 BCE. They were unearthed by archaeologists...

SpaceX Is Building a New Launch Site In Texas

Texas Governor Rick Perry announced Monday that private space company SpaceX will build the first-ever exclusively commercial launch site near Brownsville, Texas. SpaceX, owned and operated by PayPal billionaire Elon Musk, received a $2.3 million investment from the state to build its site in Texas. Brownsville has a median income of $30,000, and nearly 40% of Brownsville’s population lives...

Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’ Now the Size of Connecticut

A survey of marine life in the Gulf of Mexico has found the world’s second-largest “dead zone” ballooning out from the mouth of the Mississippi River and covering an expanse of ocean roughly equal in size to the state of Connecticut. Scientists for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration measured the dead zone, an expanse of asphyxiating water marked by unusually low...

Study: Society Flourished When Humans Got Less Manly

Some anthropologists now believe that advanced human behaviors like tool-making only developed when early humans evolved to have lower levels of testosterone than their ancestors, according to a new study published in Current Anthropology. “All of a sudden, in the archeological record, culture and advanced technology suddenly becomes more widespread. And at that time we also see a decrease...


SUNDAY 3. AUGUST 2014


Giant Floating Duck Proposed to Bring Green Energy to Copenhagen

Here’s an idea for energy sustainability that’s not mere quackery: A team of British designers and artists have proposed a floating tourist attraction that would gather solar energy in Copenhagen Harbor as the Danish city works to become carbon-neutral by the year 2025. The 12-story-high structure just happens to also be in the shape of a giant sea duck. Built from lightweight steel...


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THURSDAY 31. JULY 2014


Want to See a Live Dinosaur? Set Up a Bird Feeder

An exciting new study lays out in detail how our fine feathered friends evolved from the same ancestors as the T. Rex and velociraptors over the course of millions of years, and how they managed to avoid the same doomed fate as their dinosaur cousins

Save the Animals

Popular Among Subscribers Ending the War on Fat Subscribe The End of IraqHow Many People Watched Orange Is the New Black? No One KnowsIt is a last kindness. A man in camouflage takes out a knife and severs the horn of a rhinoceros, depriving the animal of its most iconic feature. The poachers who have killed this animal have fled, leaving behind their...


WEDNESDAY 30. JULY 2014


The High Risks of High Summer Temperatures

MoreThis Is the Deadliest of the 4 SeasonsA new CDC report out Wednesday shows that 2,000 Americans died each year from 2006 to 2010 from weather-related causes and, as TIME reported earlier, twice as many Americans died of winter cold compared to summer heat. While the recent CDC numbers show more weather-related deaths attributed to the cold, the agency says heat-related health problems are...

Infographic: Ebola By the Numbers

The number of Ebola cases have continued to climb this week in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and now a recent victim in Nigeria. Here’s everything you want to know about the disease. Sources: WHO, CDC, Mayo Clinic You can also read more...

NASA Discovers 101 Active Geysers On Saturn Moon

It wasn’t long ago that scientists had given up on finding life in the Solar System. Venus and Mercury are too hot, Mars too dry, and everything else way too cold. But thanks to a series of space probes a couple of decades ago, that dismal verdict has been dramatically reversed. Several of the...