“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of the human species.
Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan–As China’s science fiction authors are elevated to the status of oracles, Qiufan’s career and his genre’s place in society have gone through the looking glass, reports Wired.
Unexplainable: A new podcast about the most fascinating unanswered questions in science–a new podcast at Vox.com in the spirit of embracing the unknown, and the great stories that are borne out of the endeavor. Unexplainable will explore the most interesting, crucial, and surprising unanswered questions in science. The show premieres with two episodes and releases weekly episodes every Wednesday. The first episode examines one of the biggest mysteries in the universe: dark matter. It’s the s