Robert Bazell

Are computers in mathematics rewriting the definitions of stupid and smart?

Not every ant is a good samaritan

Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations—many were more egalitarian. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities emerged

We now know who is responsible for them, but why they’re doing it is still up for debate

But the BepiColombo twin orbiters aren’t the first spacecraft to visit our system’s smallest planet. Here’s what we’ve seen already

Several space missions are searching for extraterrestrial life, which could come in the form of microbes