An exceptionally dry and cold environment, the Red Planet is nonetheless hauntingly familiar, even if survival requires a space suit.
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Climate change is deepening long-standing injustices. Only a just transition to clean energy can ensure a more equitable future for all.
William J. Barber III | Oct 25, 2024
Instructional records promoted the transformation of the body and, perhaps more importantly, the mind.
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While the odds are slim, neutrino technology may be the best — and perhaps only — way to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations.
Alan Chodos & James Riordon | Oct 17, 2024
Mariana Chilton argues that the solution to food insecurity must incorporate personal, political, and spiritual approaches if we are serious about fixing the crisis.
Faron Levesque | Oct 15, 2024
We need to repair our politics, not our speech.
Robert Charles Post | Oct 10, 2024
The author and philosopher reflects on the social and psychological burdens that shaped his distant relationship with his father.
Didier Eribon | Oct 7, 2024
Artist and teacher Kit White offers a toolkit of ideas and a set of guiding principles for creative thinking.
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"We must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”
Jennifer Holt | Sep 27, 2024
Are breakthroughs really a matter of chance, or are they simply waiting to be uncovered by the right person at the right time?
Telmo Pievani | Sep 24, 2024
Do AI-generated images have the capacity to further estrange, if not profoundly alienate, us from the world?
Anthony Downey | Sep 23, 2024
A dedicated investigator who lived her research, Leavitt found meaning not just in the revelatory act of scientific discovery but also on the path that led there.
Anna Von Mertens | Sep 19, 2024