A Mars habitat may not be far off in the future, but could the chances slip away if we blow up the planet? Tesla Creator Elon Musk doesn’t think so. While chatting with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, Musk stated that nuking the red planet may be essential to creating a place for humans to live, …
Take a walk through a typical grocery store and you will see the shelves stocked with edibles boasting “low fat”, “fat free”, or “heart healthy-no fat”! This low-fat diet trend was widely popularized in the late 1980s and early 1990s so much so that government run nutrition programs also became great advocates. Removing fat from …
Ever since we decided to kick Pluto out of our model of the “perfect” solar system, the dwarf planet has been relatively forgotten — until now. Close-up images of Pluto started being released by NASA during the week of July 13 after the New Horizons spacecraft took some snapshots during a flyby. Additionally, New Horizons …
Over the years, I’ve gone from being a diehard baseball fan to a casual one. It’s not something I’m proud of, but I still make it a point to watch the All Star Break and all that it entails. That being said, you can bet I was glued to my television on July 13 for …
In the early months of 2014, news headlines screamed warning of an epidemic sweeping through West Africa. The Ebola virus spread through Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and several other countries before a case was reported on American soil and the disease received much more attention from residents of the United States. Ebola may not receive …
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance My rating: 4 of 5 stars Like any book, you get out of it what you are looking for. I picked up Elon Musk as part of my research on inventors and entrepreneurs, so the approach I took was one from …
Buzz Aldrin has had plenty to say in terms of Mars exploration as of late. Back in March, he posted a photo of himself on Twitter wearing a T-shirt that read, “Get Your Ass to Mars.” If you can’t tell yet, he really, really wants NASA to make the Red Planet its focus. Now, it seems that …
They’re squishy, colorful, and look like something out of a sci-fi movie. However, Portuguese Man-of-Wars (or Man o’ Wars) are nothing to mess with, even when they wash up along the shore of your local beach. As of late, these creatures have been showing up on the beaches of New York and New Jersey, shocking …
If you’ve been anxious about the next mass extinction, bad news: it’s already commenced. Scientists have found that species loss is currently 100 times greater than the expected rate. In short, we’ve already entered the sixth mass extinction, and soon we may face the same fate as the dinosaurs. “The evidence is incontrovertible that recent …