Roberts recently co-authored a book, Science of foreign languages – along with Kirschenbaum, Avram Noam Chomsky…
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A full moon and partial lunar eclipse just in time for the Halloween holiday
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Scientists say there appears to be a slow leak underground
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Sad balloon sounds helium, Second most common An element in the known universe, it is…
Scientists are searching for strange plants
On the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from…
A bubble of toxic coolant suddenly ends a Russian spacewalk on the International Space Station
A bubble of coolant leaked from a radiator attached to the International Space Station (ISS), endangering…
If alien life has artificial intelligence, it could be even stranger than we can imagine
SETI’s focus was on the radio part of the spectrum. But of course, since we don’t…
SpaceX disputes the Federal Aviation Administration’s claims that re-entry of Starlink satellites could hurt or kill people
SpaceX has asked the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to correct a report warning that components…
Oh no! Apparently NASA can’t take the lid off its priceless asteroid sample: ScienceAlert
NASA is in a bit of a bind with a dirt container from asteroid Bennu, which…
How human activity can betray our existence to alien civilizations
But not all our signals are so faint. Across the solar system we have many spacecraft…
Scientists have discovered an ancient river landscape hidden beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet
The landscape has likely been buried under ice for up to 34 million years. October 24,…