NASA's Inspiring, Enlightening, and Successful Search for New Earths
The Kepler space telescope, NASA’s first mission dedicated to the search for planets beyond our solar system, has produced a gusher of strange new worlds. If astronomers are right, many of them will prove to be habitable.
by Tim Folger
Fracking Nation
Environmental concerns over a controversial mining method could put America's largest reservoirs of clean-burning natural gas beyond reach. Is there a better way to drill?
Homo Sapiens, Meet Your New Astounding Family
Once we shared the planet with other human species, competing with them and interbreeding with them. Today we stand alone, but our rivals’ genes live on inside us—even as their remarkable stories are only now coming to light.
Are Toxins in Seafood Causing ALS, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's?
What started as the discovery of an unknown disease in Guam has spread to a line of ominous findings about some of our most debilitating conditions and potential toxins lurking in bodies of water around the world.
