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Why the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Is So Special to Me
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Celebrating the Engineers behind the First Moon Landing
My father was one of those who worked feverishly behind the scenes 50 years ago to get astronauts safely to the moon and back
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Pluto Redux
The faraway world’s demotion more than a decade ago opened a celestial can of worms
Computing Biology's Future
Life scientists need new training to grapple with their discipline’s explosion of data
It Takes a Village to Declassify an Error Bar
Identifying an interstellar meteorite— ‘Oumuamua’s cousin — required a national-security waiver...
Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
If we don’t know how AIs make decisions, how can we trust what they decide?
GeoBits: Lunar Exploration Edition
In this edition, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
My Encounter with the Late Mitchell Feigenbaum, Chaos Pioneer and Critic
The renowned discoverer of order underlying chaos was surprisingly skeptical of claims that computers were creating a revolutionary new science...
A Bulwark against Trump's Stem Cell Ban
California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a kind of mini-NIH, does crucial basic research without federal funding
How to Fight STEM's Unconscious Bias against LGBTQ People
To boost inclusivity, we need to do better at tracking data and holding institutions accountable
Nobel Laureate Recalls Zoo Inspiration
As a boy, George P. Smith was fascinated by reptiles. In this interview with Scientific American , Smith talks about how his scientific interest changed from reptiles to molecular biology—and led to his Nobel Prize-winning work using evolutionary principles to develop systems that make it possible to create entirely new kinds of pharmaceuticals...
Her Nobel Research Outshines Her Star Turn
Nobel Laureate Frances H. Arnold talks to Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina about her work, which takes advantage of the evolution algorithm to make entirely new enzymes that can perform useful chemistry...
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