History
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Mars: A Teeming Past?
November 09, 2009
Questions of extraterrestrial life rest on theories of Martian history.
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A Man on the Edge
November 03, 2009
A new biography explores Jacques Cousteau’s strange and colorful life but struggles to uncover why he has been so quickly forgotten.
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Traveling Through Time and Stars
October 22, 2009
In Far Out, stunning astronomical images and lyrical essays on the nature of light and space explore the universe’s past.
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A Writing Revolution
October 20, 2009
Nearly universal literacy is a defining characteristic of today’s modern civilization; nearly universal authorship will shape tomorrow's.
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Happy Birthday, Zinjanthropus
July 25, 2009
The Leakeys’ discovery of the “Nutcracker Man” 50 years ago electrified the scientific community and refocused thinking about the origin of humans back on Africa.
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The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be
July 20, 2009
Today, as many nations aspire to the Moon and America struggles to return, does anyone still have “The Right Stuff?”
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Needham’s Grand Question
December 15, 2008
As China reemerges on the science frontier, Simon Winchester offers a vivid account of one man's mission to illuminate its innovative past.
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
