Ross Andersen
Welcome to Pleistocene Park
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
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Agence Opale / Alamy A Conversation With Lauren Groff About Her Writing Process
“Often before I write a scene for the final time … I take a minute, close my eyes, and build the world of the scene around me.”
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NASA / Newsmakers / Getty What Will the Moon Landing Mean to the Future?
Nearly 50 years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the lunar surface, it’s clear that Apollo 11 will haunt the human imagination for a long time to come.
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Getty / Life on White A Journey Into the Animal Mind
What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world
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Delcan & Company ‘It Satisfies Every Childlike Curiosity’
Don DeLillo's literary interpretation of an astronaut’s “endlessly fulfilling” view of our home planet
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Matthew Shipley Fight Night With LeBron
Laker fans get their first glimpse of L.A.’s newest megastar, in one of the most chaotic home openers in memory.
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Jon Juarez What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Nature's Disastrous ‘Whitewashing’ Editorial
Science's ethos of self-correction should apply to how it thinks about its own history, too.
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Olga Dar / ostill / Shutterstock / Zak ... The Eclipse as Dark Omen
America’s skies are set to dim at a strange hour of its history.
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NASA A Wondrous New Image of Planet Earth
The Cassini spacecraft gives us a rare glimpse of ourselves from between Saturn's rings.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters Elon Musk Is Betting Big on Donald Trump
He may come to regret it.
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Paramount Pictures Is Arrival the Best ‘First Contact’ Film Ever Made?
Two Atlantic writers on the very high highs, and (perhaps) the very low lows, of the genre
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NASA The Prospect of a New Dark Age
How President-elect Trump could affect our ability to understand our changing planet
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An Animated Guide to Humanity's First Interstellar Mission
Innovations in space exploration are making galactic travel increasingly tangible.
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NASA How to Jump-Start Life Elsewhere in Our Galaxy
A new paper on “Genesis missions” explains how interstellar probes could accelerate evolution on distant planets.
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Ross Andersen Alien Worlds Might Be Covered in Enormous Mountains
On the sublime scenery that might await us on exoplanets.
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European Space Agency / Hubble / NASA Want to Find Intelligent Life on Other Planets? Look for Refrigerators
Could Freon in the atmosphere of a distant planet be the thing that finally confirms humankind is not alone?
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NASA Fancy Math Can’t Make Aliens Real
An astrophysicist says extraterrestrial civilizations “almost certainly” existed at one time or another. Here’s what’s wrong with his argument.
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Richard Hammar Inside a Billionaire’s New Interstellar Mission
Yuri Milner is spending $100 million on a probe that could travel to Alpha Centauri within a generation—and he's recruited Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking to help. In an interview with The Atlantic, Milner makes his case for star travel.
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NASA Through Hardship to the Stars
Bob Ebeling, the engineer who foresaw the Challenger disaster, and lived with guilt for decades, has died.
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ESA The World's Most Urgent Science Project
To know the Earth’s future, you must first know its past.
