Increasing renewable energy may not reduce the use of fossil fuels in the United States, according to a study by Ryan Thombs, assistant professor of rural sociology in Penn State’s College
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Extreme heat is the number-one weather-related killer in the U.S., causing hundreds to thousands of deaths every year. And available estimates are assuredly undercounts because heat is not always accounted for
The regular dodecagon and the blue star inside it both have a side length of 1 unit. What is the area of the star?Show puzzle solutionThe regular dodecagon with side length
The beginning of June marks the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, the six-month period when strong storms can brew in the ocean and then wreak havoc on land. Among the
Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. Sure, an asteroid could destroy a city or wipe
On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and