Launching rockets into space with atomic bombs is a crazy idea that was thankfully discarded many decades ago. But as Richard...

In August 1998, 700 people came to Boulder, Colorado to attend the founding convention of the Mars Society. The group’s cofounder and president, Robert...

Ian Randall reviews Depravity’s Rainbow by Lewis Bush Ettersburg Castle, Germany, 1926. A previously unremarkable student who had shown...

Life in space subjects the human body to extreme conditions – exposing astronauts to radiation,...

Born in the serene environs of a village in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region in 1955, Alexander Galitsky’s humble origins were in stark contrast to...

IntroductionAristotle argued almost 2,400 years ago that a perfect vacuum could never exist. Today, the concept of nothingness figures at least implicitly into almost...

Spaceflight – both short-duration space shuttle missions and longer periods living on the International Space...

IntroductionThe heart’s electrical system keeps all its muscle cells beating in sync. A hard whack to the chest at the wrong moment, however, can...

IntroductionThe jellyfish that move through the seas by gently pulsing their saclike bodies may not seem to hold many secrets that would interest human...

Life on Earth owes its existence to photosynthesis—a process which is 2.3 billion years old. This immensely fascinating (and still not fully understood) reaction...

Singapore, Singapore, June 15th, 2023, Chainwire Huobi, the virtual asset trading platform, announces Phase I of the...

IntroductionSailors have spun yarns for centuries about gigantic rogue waves that could suddenly come out of nowhere to capsize the ships of unwary mariners....