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Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.

Individuals and organizations can maintain a strong and enduring identity by repeatedly remaking themselves.

JWST has brought us more distant views of the early Universe than ever before. Is the Big Bang, and all of modern cosmology, in trouble?

Engineer James Clarke liberated John, Paul, George, and Ringo from their mono and stereo straitjackets using algorithms at Abbey Road.

We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.

The James Webb Space Telescope viewed Neptune, our Solar System’s final planet, for the first time. Here’s what we saw, and what it means.

The DART mission tested whether it’s possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.

Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine? Well, it depends.

Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.

The matter that creates black holes won’t be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?

Do you always act professionally in the workplace? Depends what you mean by “professional.”

The fellowship’s journey through Middle-earth mirrors the modernization of the English countryside.

Don’t make the mistake of blindly following quantitative metrics — whether you’re helping clients or looking for lunch.

Bram Stoker’s mother survived a terrible cholera outbreak and recounted the ghastly scenes to her son years later.

A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.

IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.

A poignant, 2,000-year-old burial in northern Italy could be the latest evidence of an ancient friendship.

Here’s what recent DESI measurements suggest — and why it’s too early to update conventional predictions about the Universe’s distant future.

We’re separating the facts about EVs from the fiction.

Physicists recently created Coordinated Lunar Time, a time zone for our Moon.

An insect? A vermin? An unwanted animal? What in the world is Franz Kafka talking about?

From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.

A team of scientists has warned that marketers seek to advertise in our dreams. Will our sleep be commercialized against our wishes?

With its very first deep-field view of the Universe now released, the James Webb Space Telescope has shown us our cosmos as never before.

Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.

The state of global democracy is relatively strong — but there are clear signs of recent erosion.

“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair

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