Some suns (stars) may have already exploded and burned out. But we won’t know that until the light reaches us. Those suns that have...

What do all these words and phrases relate to? Crystalline, symmetry, geometric, symmetrical intergrowth, and crystallography....

Rock salt -- Rock, from the medieval Latin rocca. Salt, from old Germanic salz. A rock is made up of one or more minerals. Rocks are...

Metamorphic rocks, one of the three rocks that make up the Rock Cycle. The others are sedimentary and igneous rocks. Metamorphic means...

Let’s talk about physics and the law of conservation of energy. The main goal of physics is to understand how the universe behaves. It...

I am a trained archaeologist, but archaeology is not at all what most people make it out to be. Yes, it’s about digging up cool stuff...

It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Fossilization is incredibly rare, it really only happens around water, with river beds and swamps being the...

It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Amethyst in Greek means a-to not and methysko-intoxicate. It was thought amethyst would protect a drinker...

It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Cloud seeding is a thing, in which silver iodide is released into the air to create cloud condensation in...

It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Cattle and bison are actually fairly closely related genetically, so much so they can interbreed. Many of...

It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Wolves were also nearly hunted to extinction in the Great Plains at the same time buffalo were. The guys...

It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Deer were hunted to extinction in many parts of the US 100 years ago. Today, because of conservation...

It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! There are actually 14 different definitions for what a species is in biology. A horse and a donkey can mate...

Pronghorn antelopes of the western US, Mexico and Canada are not an antelope, their closest relatives are actually giraffes. They are...

There is a species of deer indigenous to East Asia that has vampire fangs, called the water deer, or vampire deer, it truly looks...

Every year in southern Africa the fruit from the marula falls and ferments on the ground turning into alcohol. The wild animals have...

We in the United States are experts on both environmental degradation and environmental renewal. Bad farming and hunting habits almost...

Less than 10,000 people have died from accidents from nuclear energy, by comparison over 300,000 people die every year from pollution...

Nuclear energy and nuclear bombs are not the same thing at all. Nuclear energy is extremely clean, the white smoke coming from nuclear...

The Fermi Paradox is named after the physicist Enrico Fermi, the “architect of the nuclear age.” It refers to the possibility of...