Would you live on the moon? – Alex Gendler
You roll out of bed and leap eight meters across your underground habitat. The greywater from your sink drains into a small greenhouse where your vegetables grow. After suiting up,...
You roll out of bed and leap eight meters across your underground habitat. The greywater from your sink drains into a small greenhouse where your vegetables grow. After suiting up,...
What keeps you up at night? Pondering deep questions? Excitement about a big trip? Or is it stress about unfinished work, an upcoming test, or a dreaded family gathering? For...
Since the time of Homer, ancient stories told of fierce warriors dwelling beyond the Mediterranean world, striking fear into the mightiest empires of antiquity. Their exploits were recounted by many...
You hear the gentle lap of waves, the distant cawing of a seagull. But then an annoying whine interrupts the peace, getting closer, and closer, and closer. Until…whack! You dispatch...
Over the course of our lifetimes, our bodies undergo a series of extraordinary metamorphoses: we grow, experience puberty, and many of us reproduce. Behind the scenes, the endocrine system works...
Many of us will experience some kind of trauma during our lifetime. Sometimes, we escape with no long-term effects. But for millions of us, those experiences linger, causing symptoms like...
An elderly woman named Rosalie was sitting in her nursing home when her room suddenly burst to life with twirling fabrics. Through the elaborate drapings, she could make out animals,...
The 40 or so muscles in the human face can be activated in different combinations to create thousands of expressions. But do these expressions look the same and communicate the...
One fine day, when Charles Darwin was still a student at Cambridge, the budding naturalist tore some old bark off a tree and found two rare beetles underneath. He’d just...
The coldest materials in the world aren’t in Antarctica. They’re not at the top of Mount Everest or buried in a glacier. They’re in physics labs: clouds of gases held...