Science Archive
Archives for December 2014


It still holds true today.


It’s NASA’s best hope for putting people back in space, and we’re about to see it fly for the first time.


From warm pig fat to individually selected rice grains and vegetarianism caused by chronic flatulence.


It’ll help us find distant planets — and perhaps even extraterrestrial life.


The New Horizons probe will by flying by this summer — and it’s about to wake up from hibernation.


An HIV doctor offers help with a difficult decision.


NASA is about to launch Orion — a spacecraft that might someday carry people to Mars


He’s the first Nobel laureate to ever put his medal on the auction block.


The binary number format YouTube uses to count views tops out at 2,147,483,647 views. And “Gangnam Style” recently surpassed that figure.


The rocks could tell us a lot about the origin of the Solar System and perhaps even life on Earth.


How much can the natural capabilities of the body and mind be extended?


Not everybody is a comics nerd. But they should be.

