Oh wow, this is cool: an article in Scientific American about the Arecibo message, the first message purposely sent by ...

The piece is written by science writer Nadia Drake — the daughter of Frank Drake, who designed the message — and it digs into the details of how the whole thing came about. I’ve somehow never read ...

In 2000, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator made perhaps the ultimate dad movie. The story of the Roman general-turned-slave Maximus Decimus Meridus, played by Russell Crowe, reduced grown men to tears ...

The Arecibo message was sent on November 16, 1974 from the giant telescope of the same name in Purteo Rico in the direction of the globular star cluster Messier 13. This is around 25,000 light ...

The election is over. The candidate half of the country wanted to be president lost big time, thus we all are facing Trump 2.0. The days of bipartisan compromise is decades-past and the partisan ...

Throughout the years, several reports have accused Roblox, the popular gaming platform aimed at preteens, of lacking strict safety protocols for children, which exposes them to dangers such as ...

The Hercules 12-volt cordless ratchet is a prime example of how saving money on power tools doesn’t always mean you’re taking a hit in terms of quality and performance. While you can expect ...

In fact, it probably looks more like M44 (the Beehive open cluster) than M13 (the famous Hercules globular cluster). A dark notch cut out of its western side is very obvious under high magnification.

The distant celestial wonders in the sky above New London will soon be more visible than ever. An anonymous Connecticut College alum has donated $100,000 to the Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...