SETI Institute

SETI Institute

When the Moon Hits Your Eye

The Great North American Solar Eclipse will trace a path of shadow across Mexico and 13 U.S....

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Skeptic Check: Asteroid Mining

Asteroids are rich in precious metals and other valuable resources. But mining them presents...

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Feet Don't Fail Me

Standing on your own two feet isn’t easy. While many animals can momentarily balance on their...

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Lady Parts**

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe has ignited fierce debate about bodily autonomy. But it’s...

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Tomb with a View*

A century ago, British archaeologist Howard Carter opened the only surviving intact tomb from...

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Lithium Valley

The discovery of a massive amount of lithium under the Salton Sea could make the U.S. lithium...

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Alien Says What?

Whales are aliens on Earth; intelligent beings who have skills for complex problem-solving and...

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The Wrong Stuff

By one estimate the average American home has 300,000 objects. Yet our ancient ancestors had no...

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Skeptic Check: Hypnosis*

You are getting sleeeepy and open to suggestion. But is that how hypnotism works? And does it...

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Inside Planets

With planets and moons, it’s what’s inside that counts. If we want to understand surface...

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Tech in Check

Worried that AI will replace you? It may not seem like the Hollywood writers’ strike has anything...

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Your Mind on Movies

By one estimate we spend a fifth of our lives watching movies or TV. In fact, we consume...

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Eclectic Company

We present a grab bag of our favorite recent science stories – from how to stop aging to the...

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Iron, Coal, Wood**

Maybe you don’t remember the days of the earliest coal-fired stoves. They changed domestic life,...

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The Ocean's Genome

After helping to sequence the human genome more than twenty years ago, biochemist Craig Venter...

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Skeptic Check: Naomi Klein

Our information age is increasingly the disinformation age. The spread of lies and conspiracy...

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End of Eternity**

Nothing lasts forever. Even the universe has several possible endings. Will there be a dramatic...

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In Living Color

The world is a colorful place, and human eyes have evolved to take it in – from vermillion red to...

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The T-Rex Files

T-Rex is having an identity crisis. Rocking the world of paleontology is the claim that Rex was...

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Neanderthal in the Family**

Back off, you Neanderthal! It sounds as if you’ve just been dissed, but maybe you should take it...

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