The Perfect Astronaut Is Changing
To get to Mars, NASA might finally need to hire explorers.
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How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin
Once a suspect COVID treatment, now a cure for everything
Energy Abundance Won’t Fix Electricity Bills
Efficiency standards can still help consumers.
The World’s Hardest Bluffing Game
Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?
Last Call at the Disaster Department
Trump has signaled an end date for FEMA.
Mount Everest’s Xenon-Gas Controversy Will Last Forever
History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.
A Food Reckoning Is Coming
Our diets are awful for the planet. But we can’t simply abandon food.
Inside the Creepy, Surprisingly Routine Business of Animal Cloning
“Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.”
The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
Cosmologists are fighting over everything.
The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming
After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.