In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

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Melinda French Gates joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss her new book, The Next Day, sharing personal reflections on life ...

April’s planetary parade has fewer planets. Only four will line up: Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. April's parade of ...

Humankind is inextricably dependent on the ocean. Many of our greatest civilizations have thrived on the rim of the ocean. Today, we are more reliant than ever on the ocean for our economic, social ...

In his newly published The Social Conquest of the Earth—the 27th book from this two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Wilson argues the nest is central to understanding the ecological ...

H ere's a sentence which, while technically correct, will make you sound like the most hardened of conspiracy theorists: no ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...

U pdated Google Earth satellite images of a Chinese naval base appear to show at least six nuclear submarines, according to ...

Busting myths; how a drop of water changed a girl’s life; a tribe’s respect for fishes; and more: picks from columnist.