Category: 1. Edi-Choice

When it comes to meteor showers, the Perseids pop. It’s not just about the quantity of meteors (as many as 100 per hour) and their showy quality (fireballs!) but also their superb timing.

The annual shower hits its peak on warm, laid-back…

For the last 40,000 years, we (Homo sapiens) have lived alone – the last humans standing from a large and diverse group that, just 300,000 years ago, comprised at least nine species of walking, talking apes.

If you go further back in time…

Two meteor showers will peak at the same time in the early morning hours on Wednesday, a relatively uncommon astronomical occurrence caused by the Earth’s orbit passing through two comets’ debris trails.

The Southern Delta Aquariid and the…

Should robots be able to cannibalize each other so they can accelerate their evolution, bringing them closer to resembling self-sufficient lifeforms capable of living independently of their human masters?

Good news if your answer to that question…

Don’t fret the future.

A lot of people do, and for powerful reasons – we are facing enormous challenges unprecedented in human history, from climate change and nuclear war to engineered pandemics and…

Roughly 720 million years ago (give or take a few tens of millions), Earth plunged into one of the most extreme climate events in its history. In several stages, the planet became a giant snowball, encased in ice from pole to pole for millions of…

The controversial claim of microbes that exhibit arsenic rather than phosphorus in their biochemistry has been retracted by the journal Science 15 years after it was first published — but while most in the research community are pleased by the…

Two meteor showers peak on the night of…