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How to Restart an Ecosystem
Economics and conservation are converging to resurrect one of the planet’s greatest parks.
Ingenious: John Ochsendorf
Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers.
Ingenious: David Krakauer
The systems theorist explains what’s wrong with standard models of intelligence.
How a Snowflake Turns Into an Avalanche
Meet the avalanche engineers of the Subzero Laboratory.
Ingenious: Helen Fisher
Talking sex, brains, and commitment with the best-selling scientist of love.
Mario Livio on 25 Years of Hubble
The astrophysicist looks at the history of the world’s most famous telescope.
Ingenious: Scott Aaronson
From computational complexity to quantum mechanics.
Ingenious: Ken Goldberg
Creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human.
Can Science Tell Us What Beauty Is?
Neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee takes us into the neurology of creativity.
Teen MacGyver Invents Battery to Save the Planet
14-year-old creates eco-battery with aluminum foil, old guitar strings, and club soda.