"Science" Blogs & Blog Posts

Linda Salzman Sagan who co-created two iconic messages to extraterrestrials—the Voyager Golden Record and the Pioneer Plaque—has died. She was 83-years-old. The Pioneer Plaque was a collaboration between Linda, her husband astronomer and educ...

A 63-year-old man in Missouri went in for a routine colonoscopy, only to give doctors an extremely rare find: a perfectly intact (albeit dead) fly. "I've been doing this for over 20 years, so I've seen a lot of things," said the gastroenterologis...

It's been 66 million years since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and many may blame an asteroid's explosive collision with our planet for the end of the creatures' reign. But for years, scientists have debated whether the meteorite alone is r...

In the latest episode of Chris Hayes's Why Is This Happening? podcast, Rachel Maddow summarizes the strategy that authoritarians use to undermine democracy (video clip here). They erode trust in institutions and established sources of facts such as j...

Last year, five women in Michigan who all had the same sex partner came down with the same rare condition: eye syphilis. The women, between the ages of 40–60, experienced a range of symptoms, not all shared between them, that included headaches, bl...

Blue whales were wiped out from waters near the Seychelles islands half a century ago but underwater audio captured by scientists shows they returned.

An Australian maritime museum announced the discovery of the Endeavour in 2022, prompting a swift rebuke from its Rhode Island research partners.