If people stopped having babies, how long would it be before humans were all gone? – Jeffrey Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth […]
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Astronomers have discovered the “missing link” connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar remnants, in the form of a “teenage vampire” white dwarf. This vampire isn’t interested in the blood that runs through your
Donald Trump is embroiled in conflicts, facing new tests of his presidential powers and of his willingness to use military force. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss the conflict between Israel and Iran—and how it is
Gold is a heavy metal and one of Earth’s rarer elements, formed in space when neutron stars collide. But just how rare is gold on Earth, and how much of it is there in the world now? To answer these
For the first time since its discovery in 1904, the original serpent’s head from the prow of the Oseberg Ship will be on public display in Oslo, Norway. Carved over a millennium ago, this intricate wooden piece was deemed too
Much of what you’ve heard lately about men has probably been negative. Young guys, we’re told, are being radicalized and sucked into the manosphere; adult men are toxic, or victims of a loneliness epidemic. We may have become so used
By 4 a.m., a breeze had begun to blow across the stadium near the center of Baghdad, but Qaid al-Sheikhli was still sweating through his dishdasha. He was six hours into a championship quarterfinals match of mheibes, one of the
Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents evidence that subduction can spread like a contagion, jumping from
Name: Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) Where it lives: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and northeastern Australia What it eats: Fruit, seeds, fungi, insects, snails, fish, frogs, small birds, small mammals and carrion You may like Why it’s awesome: The southern cassowary
