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Future Flight

In the Star Wars universe, Coruscant is a planet-wide city humming with constant air traffic and galactic commerce. Here on Earth, when cities and aircraft come together, there tend to…

Dating the Big Bang

Some scientific questions about the universe remain a matter of theory and conjecture. (What existed before the big bang? What is dark matter? How will the universe end?) Other mysteries…

Hot Blooded

In the seventeenth century, most “knowledge” of the human body and its workings came from Aristotle, Galen, and a few contemporary philosophers like René Descartes. All agreed that illness sprang…

First Blood

By the second half of the seventeenth century, decades of scientific experimentation and invention had led to some of the greatest discoveries the world had seen since ancient Greece: gravity,…

Tackling Life

In the middle of Michael Oher’s rookie season as an offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, a big-budget Hollywood movie based on his life premiered to rave reviews—but he was…

Chasing Plagues

…Crosby: Finding the case studies for Asleep was a major challenge. Early in the project I realized that to portray this kaleidoscope of a disease, I’d need to follow a…

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