Let’s Do Some Leaf-Peeping From Space

New space telescope will reopen astronomers’ view of the far-infrared

Let’s Get Specific About These Doomsday Scenarios

Oligarchy Is a Symptom, Not a Cause

Japan’s Science Council to face greater governmental oversight

Open Thread

Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh

A new technique could accelerate the development of RNA therapies

How Fast You Age During 40s May Predict Memory Lapses in Your 50s

On audiophilia

Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Plunges Into Silence”

50 Years Ago, NASA Unveiled its First Space Shuttle

Glenn Gould was fabulously neurotic, opinionated, and flamboyant. Seventy years on, his Bach still sets the standard

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

Let The People Set The Pace Of Frontier AI

Trump’s 21st-Century Mercantilism

New In Civitas: The Smithsonian Should Be Privatized

Pangolins Are Some of the Most Illegally Trafficked Animals on the Planet. A Rediscovered Species Could Help

Fueling a return journey from Mars

LIVE BRIEFING: WHAT IS COMING IN OCTOBER?

An Ideological Accreditation Problem at the APA