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Chapter one
Making Space
2015 Was the Best Year Ever in Space
The romance is back, argues a NASA adviser and best-selling science-fiction author.
Saving Suburbia
Shouldn’t neighborhoods be as diverse as the swamps and forests that surround them?
Whom He May Devour
Saving her planet would ban her from paradise.
The Deep Space of Digital Reading
Why we shouldn’t worry about leaving print behind.
Chapter two
In Theory
Let’s Rethink Space
Does space exist without objects, or is it made by them?
The Space Shuttle’s Last Launch
A portrait of the NASA program’s last days.
The Illusion Machine That Teaches Us How We See
A mathematician is using computers to manufacture award-winning illusions.
Beauty Is Physics’ Secret Weapon
A Nobel laureate maps his path to discovery.
Chapter three
Starstruck
The Day the Mesozoic Died
How the story of the dinosaurs’ demise was uncovered.
The Problem with Nature Therapy
The medicalization of nature turns a relationship into a dose.
How the Cold War Created Astrobiology
Life, death, and Sputnik.
These Astronomical Glass Plates Made History
Eight foundational images from the archives of the Carnegie Observatories.
Chapter four
Headspace
How to Survive Solitary Confinement
An ex-convict on how to set your mind free.
How to Discover a Galaxy with a Telephoto Lens
The Dragonfly telescope is pushing the boundaries of small-scale observational astronomy.
The Man Who Would Tame Cancer
Patrick Soon-Shiong is opening a new front in the war on the deadly disease.
The Bugs in Our Mindware
Many obstacles lie on the path to rational thought.
The Woman Who Got Lost at Home
A developmental disorder promises a new window onto the brain’s secrets.
Men Are Better At Maps Until Women Take This Course
A bit of education can erase a definitive cognitive gap between men and women.
Ingenious: Ken Perlin
We sit down with the virtual reality expert.
Related Facts So Romantic
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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