Winfrey, who launched her club in 1996, also picked “A New Earth” in 2008 and featured it in a series of webinars she hosted ...

In place of white blood cells, they have cells known as amebocytes, which are extremely effective at detecting bacterial endotoxins. Even at levels less than one part per trillion, amebocytes can ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...

For the 16th-century cartographer Juan de la Cosa, the top of the map was west, in the direction of his first voyage with Christopher Columbus. Nearly 500 years later, Stuart McArthur of Melbourne, ...

Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the ... Soon the pair has succumbed to a magnetic, earth-shattering attraction, and the narrator has checked into a nearby motel ...

Eugene Gholz analyzes the economic and security consequences of China's central position in the global rare-earths market. He discusses the evolution of the rare-earths market, which is critical ...

Just take the young girl in Xin Li’s new book, I Live Inside a Whale. Early in the story, her narrator says, “I read about the blue whale. It is the largest animal on earth, with a heart so ...

Dec 30, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky This year’s best music, our critic thinks, defied conventions of genre and doctrine, showing how hybrid and fluid the art has become.

The Earth is about 42 million feet (12.8 million meters) wide, and even a tall adult's viewpoint is just 6 feet (about 2 meters) above its surface. There is no way our eyes can take in the size of ...

Trillions of tons of hydrogen gas are likely buried in rocks and reservoirs beneath Earth's surface, but researchers aren't sure where it is yet. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The following is an excerpt from The Burning Earth: A History by Sunil Amrith. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a small commission which ...