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Overcoming sexist naysayers and self-doubt in astrophysics.

A geophysicist breaks down the elements of wildfires.

Mining the mysteries of Uranus and Neptune.

An intriguing proposal about what makes reality tick under the surface.

The author on writing his new book, “The Ascent of Information.”

Science expressed only in terms of what happens is getting in the way of progress.

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.

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

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

A selection of illustrations from the new book Carbon, One Atom’s Odyssey.