Alien life might be closer than we originally thought.
A nearby red dwarf star, named TRAPPIST-1 after the telescope observing it, has three Earth-sized planets orbiting within or near its habitable...
For the first time in over a decade, Apple Inc. saw a quarterly revenue drop.
Stock prices fell by 8 percent, and sales in China (Apple’s most important market besides the United States) dropped by...
A reef discovered at the mouth of the Amazon River is muddying scientists’ conceptions of those rare underwater communities.
On April 22, a team of Brazilian and American scientists published an article...
After a brief scare, the Kepler spacecraft is running safely once more.
The scare came on April 7 during a scheduled contact with the spacecraft. At that time, mission operations engineers discovered...
“This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.”
Most American students and faculty will remember this saying, accompanied by an egg frying in a pan. Well, British scientists now have actual pictures...
A new sound-based personal safety device has spread to over 100 campuses around the country.
Colleges from all over the United States are purchasing the Sound Grenade and giving them to their students...
These words, sung by King George III in the musical “Hamilton,” are in reference to the newly freed United States. However, they would not be out of place in a description of a chilling new study done...
Scientists are taking the Stoic prescription of simplification to whole new levels, specifically, the cellular level.
On March 24, scientists announced that they built a single-celled organism that...
Arctic sea ice cover was at its lowest extent on record this winter, scientists are reporting.
Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) released a statement on Monday, March 28, saying...
This past Friday, ten Calvin students presented their research at the annual Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters conference.
Five students gave oral presentations, while five students presented...
America’s longest-flying astronaut has come back to earth.
On March 1, astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent the past 340 days on the International Space Station (ISS), touched down at 11:26 p.m. ET in...
Apple and the FBI are embroiled in a heated legal battle over something found in the pockets of millions of Americans: an iPhone.
FBI officials wish to investigate the contents of the phone belonging...
Lightbulbs, birth control pills, lasers, microphones, shoes. At first glance, this list seems like a collection of random items. A little research reveals a common thread that unites them all: they were...
Once again, it appears Einstein was on to something.
Last Thursday, a team of researchers announced that they heard the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away. The scientists...
Air pollution is killing millions of people every year, making it a global public health concern.
Research released on Feb. 12 suggests that over 5.5 million people die every year as a result of breathing...
In an unprecedented move toward peace, computer science students and faculty at both Calvin and Hope College are collaborating on the creation of a new trivia game.
Senior Carson Wiens, junior Tyler...
On Feb. 2, the Canadian government announced that they will protect 85 percent of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia from logging and development.
The deal, which took almost two decades...
This week, the fertility regulator of the United Kingdom gave British scientists the green light to genetically modify human embryos in an effort to provide a deeper understanding of the first moments...
The Zika virus, a disease possibly linked to serious birth defects, was declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday.
The virus is transmitted to...
Hurricane Patricia, one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded, made landfall on the western coast of Mexico two weeks ago. With sustained winds of nearly 200 mph, it threatened to be one of the most...
Last week, the United States Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of a biochemical pesticide to protect managed honeybee colonies. The main ingredient of this pesticide is extracted from a...
Last week, the United States Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of a biochemical pesticide to protect managed honeybee colonies. The main ingredient of this pesticide is extracted from a...
Earlier this month, planetary scientists made an unexpected observation: Pluto might be home to a series of dunes.
“We have detected vast fields of features that look like dunes,” S. Alan Stern,...
A study published in Nature’s online journal this past week estimates that there are just over three trillion trees on Earth. Previous estimates counted only 400 billion, eight times smaller than the...
Average global concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) this March, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
This is the first time...
In late March, a team at the University of Arizona developed a better model for predicting the number of hurricanes in the upcoming season.
The new model, developed by graduate student Kyle Davis and...
A violent tornado touched down in northern Illinois on Thursday, April 9, roughly 80 miles west of Chicago, leaving many injured and killing two.
Preliminary reports estimated that at least two tornadoes...
Late last year, scientists discovered that the West Antarctic ice sheet is collapsing, which is predicted to lead to a global sea level rise of roughly 11 feet.
Last week, scientists from the United...
