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Our Conflicted Feelings For R2-D2

Lucas’ droids are halfway between human and inhuman, so we can both love and ignore them.

January 22, 2016

Men Are Better At Maps Until Women Take This Course

A bit of education can erase a definitive cognitive gap between men and women.

January 21, 2016

The Woman Who Got Lost at Home

A developmental disorder promises a new window onto the brain’s secrets.

January 21, 2016

How to Survive Solitary Confinement

An ex-convict on how to set your mind free.

January 21, 2016

The Day the Mesozoic Died

How the story of the dinosaurs’ demise was uncovered.

January 13, 2016

The Problem with Nature Therapy

The medicalization of nature turns a relationship into a dose.

January 13, 2016

How to Discover a Galaxy with a Telephoto Lens

The Dragonfly telescope is pushing the boundaries of small-scale observational astronomy.

January 13, 2016

Beauty Is Physics’ Secret Weapon

A Nobel laureate maps his path to discovery.

January 11, 2016

Let’s Rethink Space

Does space exist without objects, or is it made by them?

January 11, 2016

The Deep Space of Digital Reading

Why we shouldn’t worry about leaving print behind.

January 5, 2016

2015 Was the Best Year Ever in Space

The romance is back, argues a NASA adviser and best-selling science-fiction author.

December 23, 2015

Whom He May Devour

Saving her planet would ban her from paradise.

December 23, 2015