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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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A Word about Those UFO Videos
I’m an astrophysicist, but that doesn’t mean I have a motivation to debunk them
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Did Galileo Truly Say, ‘And Yet It Moves’? A Modern Detective Story
An astrophysicist traces genealogy and art history to discover the origin of the famous motto
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In Search of Naked Singularities
The “cosmic censorship” hypothesis says they shouldn’t exist—but is it possible that we’ve already detected them and misinterpreted their nature?
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A Birthday Message from the Hubble Telescope
I’m turning 30, and it’s been an amazing journey so far
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A Sobering Astronomical Reminder from COVID-19
We should be grateful for the conditions that allow us to exist at all, because they won’t last forever
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Seven Years to Mercury
A final flyby on the way to the inner world
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Remembering Freeman Dyson
In our conversations, he ventured far and wide across science, literature and politics, offering unorthodox ideas with a bracing self-confidence
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Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle
The great astrophysicist Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) named the big bang theory but never embraced it...
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Life as We Don’t Know It
If we’re going to find extraterrestrials, we need to stop assuming they’ll think like humans
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