Christopher Chyba

Democrats in Congress need to take immediate action to fix the 1807 Insurrection Act so that guardrails prevent abuse of the act before America has another authoritarian president, a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation argued on Saturday."We shoul...

The study, published in the journal Physical Review Research, builds on work the team conducted back in 2016 and an idea dating back to at least 1832....

Human beings have long looked to the stars and hoped that alien life might look back at us. Yet the truth is that the first extraterrestrial life we discover is far more likely to be microbial — a prospect less romantic perhaps than the idea of bipedal aliens shaking hands with humans after landing ...

Experiments suggest an unusual magnetic material could help harness energy from Earth's rotation. But not everyone is convinced

Finding a piece of the elusive cosmic body that devastated a Siberian forest a century ago could help save Earth in the centuries to come