Historian of Science, Technology, & the Environment
The world’s chimpanzee population is shrinking. There are now barely 150,000 chimpanzees left on Earth, fifty-percent fewer than there were just fifty years ago. By comparison, there are now more than 7,181,650,000 humans roaming …
Scientists have long identified Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, as one of the most intriguing objects in the immediate celestial neighborhood. For starters, there’s its size. Titan is the second-largest moon in …
Scientists have discovered an ancient reef in the unlikeliest of places: the arid plains of southern Namibia. The fossilized reef was produced by coral-like members of the wonderfully named Cloudina genus around 548-million …
It was on this day exactly one-hundred years ago that the greatest baseball player of all time made his major-league debut. Of course, no one knew that at the time. …