Can “Dante’s Inferno” Tell Us Something About Space Rocks?

New space telescope will map galaxies’ ghostly halos and streams

Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA is racing to rescue it

This Cosmonaut Was the First Woman in Space

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Global Health Reform Must Bolster Innovation

Swift, Pope, and Gay gathered at Twickenham in 1726. They shared a villa, and a witty contempt for their age

The Left-Wing Case Against Anti-Zionism

Brickbat: Without a Prayer

ISS Astronaut Shares Incredible Photos of Volcanoes Taken From Space

Data Centers in Space? It’s Complicated

Today in Supreme Court History: June 14, 1810

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What is this rock?

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AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness 

The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?