Humanity is lucky to reside on a planet circling a star with plentiful radiation, illuminating the world around us in ...

Jumping off from the Spelljammer media list (which included a couple great science-fantasy books), I’ve conspired to get even more science-fantasy books on io9! Check out some of my favorites.

Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum In 1864, a book called Spectropia set out to expose how the ... Brown’s background, including how he came to be so well versed in the science of the time, has ...

Some consider the resulting meat — known as Hákarl by Greenlanders — a delicacy. “Apparently it tastes like a very ripe ...

Anti-intellectualism is a prevalent and pernicious force in American public life. Stimulating interest in science may combat ...

The ending of Portal 2 is a powerful moment when GLaDOS and Chell finally bury the hatchet and the poor test subject gets to leave the Apeture Science facility after years of being forced to run ...

And for those needing more than what iPhoto could provide, Apple offered Aperture. Aperture 1.0 was released in fall 2005. The pitch from Apple was pretty straight-forward: “Aperture is to ...

By Catherine Hong The Coming of the ‘Messiah’: How Handel’s Masterpiece Was Born John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political ...

Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, “The Yellow Bus,” took him in a different direction — one that required time, patience and ...

The measurement of the acceptance angle of an optical fiber, which is the maximum angle at which the core of the fiber will take in light that will be contained within the core. Taken from the ...

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