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An aerospace engineer explains why SpaceX’s Starship will change everything.

Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have always roamed free of academia.

Deep in the ocean abyss, xenophyophores are worlds unto themselves.

What is lost when we lose in-person learning.

Getting to the core of today’s social acrimony.

Marine biologist Heather Koldewey on conservation, seahorses, and cross-discipline work.

Why science changes everything.

Music brings us together to show us how different we are.

There may be more than one way to tune a universe for life.

His dream of feeding the world died in prison. His dream of a seed bank lives on.

Odds are, if an asteroid hadn’t crashed into Earth, we wouldn’t be here.

Where’s the evidence that grit predicts success?