Black-Hole Powered Blobs -The Most Massive Objects in Space

“Blobs” might sound as scientific as an astrologer at a NASCAR rally, but it’s a real astrophysical term – in fact, it’s a giant one.

Does the Sun’s "Great Conveyor Belt" Control Solar Cycles?

A NASA solar physicist is studying the Great Conveyor Belt on the Sun, a 40-year-cycle current of hot plasma, which may control the maximums and minimums of sunspots as part of the solar cycle.

Exploring the 10 Billion Neurons of the Cerebral Cortex – Everything You Think of as "You"

The study of the human brain is one of the most fascinating, and incredibly meta, subjects in existence. The almost Escherian experiments of one brain studying another brain (which is thinking about being studied by the first) have up to…

Why is Mars Losing Its Atmosphere? New Research Points to an Answer

NASA has been making a lot of headlines the past couple of years with recent discoveries on Mars, and fans of the red planet are in for good news: they’re going again, bigger and better than ever.

Richard Dawkins: "The Stroke of Luck that Led to Life on Earth Exists Elsewhere in the Universe" (Weekend Feature)

It’s no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us.

Richard Dawkins: "The Stroke of Luck that Led to Life on Earth Exists Elsewhere in the Universe" (Weekend Feature)

It’s no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us. But, as Dawkins emphasizes, that does not mean that stars exists in…

The Milky Way’s Monster Black Hole Awakes! Fired Out a Massive Flare 300 Years Ago (Weekend Feature)

Astronomers have long wondered why it was that the super-massive black hole in the center of our galaxy was relatively quiet. Known as Sagittarius A*, a massive hole, containing about 4 million times the mass of our Sun.

Awe! The Biology of Faith (Weekend Feature)

The awe-inspiring distance normally perceived between humans and their gods through ritual, according to Joseph Campbell, is “the one great story of myth: that in the beginning we were united with the source, but that we were separated from it…

Awe! The Biology of Faith (Weekend Feature)

The awe-inspiring distance normally perceived between humans and their gods through ritual, according to Joseph Campbell, is “the one great story of myth: that in the beginning we were united with the source, but that we were separated from it…

Future Tech: Monolith Technology

The 2001 monolith is a science-fiction icon. It can represent technology, God, alien influence or intense monkey violence, depending on what exactly you got out of Kubrick’s masterpiece.